Food-dyes show the disturbances caused by dropping various objects through a glycerin-water solution. This moment depicts a teardrop shape and blue food-dye floating back to the surface due to differences in density.
Xeen Meighan
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Flow Vis Guidebook
- Introduction to the Guidebook
- Overview 1: Phenomena. Why Does It Look Like That?
- Overview 2: Visualization Techniques
- Overview 3: Lighting
- Overview 4 - Photography A: Composition and Studio Workflow
- Overview 4 - Photography B: Cameras
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Focal Length
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Aperture and DOF
- Overview 4: Photography D: Exposure
- Overview 4 - Photography E - Resolution
- Overview 5 - Post-Processing
- Clouds 1: Names
- Clouds 2: Why Are There Clouds? Lift Mechanism 1: Instability
- Clouds 3: Skew - T and Instability
- Clouds 4: Clouds in Unstable Atmosphere
- Clouds 5: Lift Mechanism 2 - Orographics
- Clouds 6: Lift Mechanism 3 - Weather Systems
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Refractive Index Techniques 1: Liquid Surfaces
- Refractive Index Techniques 2: Shadowgraphy and Schlieren
- Particles 1- Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water
- Particles 4 -Dilute Particle Techniques
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color


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Hi Xeen,
I think it’s very interesting that there’s multiple layers of disturbances here, the layer closer to the teardrop and the layer a bit further out near the center of the screen. I am curious what orientation you dropped this in?
I really like the effect that you gained from including the warped glass to the left hand side and the blue dye rising near the middle. It kinda gives a bit of a “bubble” effect around the 3d printed teardrop shape and give lots of texture and depth to the image!
Cool image! The colors here are interesting, I think you get a good sense of the flow direction from the kind of “comet’s tail” coming from the rising blue water droplets
Fascinating picture Xeen! I like the transparency of the 3D printed teardrop. I wonder what its refractive index was compared to water or the surrounding fluid.
I like the geometry of the almost perfect circles that ended up in this image – it’s very appealing to the eye.