Living two years in Italy I was always fascinated by the beautiful cappuccino designs that the baristas would create in only a second...
Visualization by British astronomer Scott Manley.
Bob Hoover, a pilot legend, flies with his engines off, lands on one wheel and pours tea upside-down. How that works is explained here.
A visualization of water flow by the Center for Computational Engineering Science in Aachen.
German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) is not considered a household name by any means. His varied and extensive work gave rise to the terms ecology and First World War, the rise of Darwinism as a valid theory and the discovery and proposal of the Protista kingdom of organisms within biology. Perhaps his greatest and most enduring work is found in his artistic endeavors, in which he sought to combine his creative vision with his desire for scientific accuracy. More over here: www.thisrecording.com/...
While doing some research about insects I stumbled upon this image. I don't know which insect it is or who took the picture.
Stephen Wolfram, a British Mathematician and Physicist, is the founder of the computable knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha, which we use a lot for geometrical calculation lately. Via Myriam.
Ernst Chladni, born 1756, was a German physicist and musician. He's the first known person doing research on vibrating plates leading to the "Chladni Patterns". Have a look at this video to explain.
If you're interested in this matter you should also have a look at Alexander Lauterwasser's documentary Water Sound Images (German Language).
This is best thing I've seen in a long time! Apparently captured on 16mm by David Rogers, Vanderbilt University, in the late 1950s.
Shock waves that occur in traffic flow are very similar to the waves produced by dropping stones in water. A shock wave propagates along a line of vehicles in response to changing conditions at the front of the line. Shock waves can be generated by collisions, sudden increases in speed caused by entering free flow conditions, or by a number of other means. Basically, a shock wave exists whenever the traffic conditions change. Read more.
These excerpts of their beautiful scan processor studies have just been published. Brian O'Reilly explains:
The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970's and sat on a shelf for years, having been recently digitized. Woody came into my studio one day and asked me if I would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there...
The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer's ImX software, developed with input from Steina. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.
Via Motiongrapher.
Kai Kostack shows a real-time journey through a female body (age 59). Fascinating. Via Blender Nation.
Eva Schindling is Austrian. What you see here is one of her studies, 300 spheres, attracted to a center in space, rubbing against each other (following relatively fake physical rules) end up rotating in an interesting way. She doesn't know why.
This is science we need. Wonderful.