Is that a Petri Dish? No, it's viscous liquid in an (unnecessarily violent) rotational flow inside a solid cylinder. Color is vorticity. Simulation in Basilisk (www.basilisk.fr and bview).

Made this cabinet, on and off over the last 7 mo. As usual, *all* wood is palette/garbage/dumpster_finds. So its cost was 0 (but the man-hours would take you back some 4k€ easily). Some tech infos in the image alt-texts. Had tons of fun - and that's why it was made. #DIY #woodworking

The 1926 silent movie "The Johnstown Flood" showcased hundreds of early proofs of why fluid mechanics breaks your SFX. E.g. in this composite (~100y ago!) shot,we see a miniature flood,matchsticks pretending to be tree logs, people (rotoscoped in) and ...droplets with d=15cm. Good luck with that!

Some 9mo ago I made a desk cabinet (I twitted about it here: x.com/echo_dancers... ).
Now, I'm preparing it's left-hand-side brother, which due to a higher degree of complication, needs come prototyping in 3D...

Ever thought you're living in a historic era of the breakthrough of the electric car? Well, no. Check out this Detroit Electric (prob. model 47). They used plug-in charging (pictured), had >300km range (in tests) at ~32km/h. And more style than a 'Tessler'. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit...

I asked our European ChatGPT version (Mistral le Chat) about it, and apparently it got so stupefied it didn't finish the sentence :)

I battle-station-tested it :)
Works great except, of course, had to transform the color palette a tad more into the LSD territory.

Getting a new agenda for 2025 meant a look at the 2024 one - and the previous one too. Here's four picks of my fav pages. See if you can spot just why I don't use Google Calendar... (11/03/2023, 05/06/2023, 05/17/2024, 12/10/2024)

I love 1-bit graphics. This excellent illustration - from Akio Tomiyama's 1998 invited talk given at the ICMF'98 in Lyon - shows just about what you need to know about a given bubble plume (and, granted, nothing more).

Splendid! Straight to desktop (this time no Wayland, just my regular Linux with Notion window manager)

Splashy here is what we get if we continue the Basilisk simulation I posted an animation of some days ago. Here, rendered with Blender, and then some...

Let's go with Henry V. Regnault (hint: not on the same year tho...)

A liquid (think, oil) jet, pretty laminar (Re approx 170, We=2500) crashes with a rotating wall (think, hot solid, to cool it down); splashing around and then slowly coating it. Heat transfers are there, but invisible in the vid...
Simulated in Basilisk, visu in Bview, ffmpeg and some Bash...