A falling stream of honey piles up in unstable rope coiling, color-inverted.

By Jonathan Fraker, Rachel Sobke, Alexandra Banks, and Taylor Powers for Spring 2014 Team Second.
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A falling stream of honey piles up in unstable rope coiling, color-inverted.

Dyed streams of honey and corn syrup coil unstably. Original music by Brian Mulligan.

A falling stream of corn syrup exhibits unstable rope coiling. Original music by Alexander White.

Both inertial and viscous rope coiling can be seen as a thin stream of honey piles up.

Corn syrup coils onto a small amount of food dye in a glass, bending light as it does so.

Altocumulus lenticularis, 4/16/14, 7 pm, Boulder CO.

Leading edge of a stratocumulus sheet, April 9th, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Boulder CO

Altocumulus, 9th of April, 2014, 6:22 AM, Boulder CO

Cirrocumulus lenticularis and contrail, Boulder CO 4/8/14, 7:15 pm.

Cumulus, Boulder CO, 4/7/2014 at 4:18pm