Think it up and birth it

I am here to observe and learn!

[comicallyvintage]

Nobody likes a bad kisser.

[proofofprime]

YOU TELL HIM NORMA!

[fer1972]

Big Bang: Photography by Marcel Christ

[marcedith]

[staceythinx]

Underwater photographer Todd Bretl’s gorgeous images of the very photogenic bobtail squid.

[irakalan]

LIQUID JEWEL

New work by Photographer Fabian Oefner - This series is a continuation of my research of manipulating paint with different natural forces. In the “Black Hole” series, it was centrifugal force, that shaped the paints into colorful carousels. This time I used air pressure to create what I call “liquid jewels”.

[gifcraft]

Gelatin cubes dropped onto solid surface

[mathani]

(following 1ucasvb)

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

The photo sequence in the upper image shows, left to right, a fluid-filled tube falling under gravity, impacting a rigid surface, and rebounding upward. During free-fall, the fluid wets the sides of the tube, creating a hemispherical meniscus. After impact, the surface curvature reverses dramatically to form an intense jet. If, on the other hand, the tube is treated so that it is hydrophobic, the contact angle between the liquid and the tube will be 90 degrees during free-fall, impact, and rebound, as shown in the lower image sequence. The liquid simply falls and rebounds alongside the tube, without any deformation of the air-liquid interface. (Photo credit: A. Antkowiak et al.)

[galaxyclusters]

[mucholderthen]

WATER BEAR IN ACTION

[ posted by galaxyclusters ]

Water Bears belong to a lesser known phylum of invertebrate animals, the Tardigrada. The first tardigrades were discovered by Goetz in 1773. Over 400 species have been described since that time.

Tardigrades grow only to a size of about 1mm, but they can easily be seen with a microscope. Tardigrade bodies are short, plump, and contain four pairs of lobopodial limbs (poorly articulated limbs which are typical of soft bodied animals). Each limb terminates in four to eight claws or discs. They lumber about in a slow bear-like gait over sand grains or pieces of plant material.

Tardigrade facts.

[stigmartyr762]

The Sun, seen in different wavelengths of light.

[visualizingmath]

Growth - Art by (the amazing) Rare Minimum.

The artwork begins with the polygon that has the least number of sides—the triangle. From there, it grows. Triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, hendecagon (or undecagon), dodecagon…n-gon.

Maybe if this painting went on to infinity, we’d have a circle at the very “end” of it. Or maybe not.

More art by Rare Minimum!

[irakalan]

REMARKABLE MACRO PHOTOS OF INSECT

SAM DROEGE | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring

Sam Droege - The USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program designs and develops large and small scale surveys for native bees. As part of that program we also develop identification tools and keys for native bee species. One aspect of creating those tools is creating accurate and detailed pictures of native bees and the plants and insects they interact with. Photos were taken with a system developed by Dr. Anthony G Gutierrez and taken by Brooke Alexander, Sue Boo, Heagan Ahmed and Sierra Williams.

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Alberto Seveso's gorgeous high-speed photos of ink diffusing in water have a dramatic sense of texture to them. Though still delicate, the whorls of fluid seem almost solid enough to touch. Watch the edges, though, and you can see thin wisps of color and hints of instabilities. Like cream poured into coffee, these ink sculptures are short-lived. Some of his works are available as prints or wallpapers (zip file). (Photo credit: Alberto Seveso)

[prostheticknowledge]

The Art Gallery Problem

Mathematical approach on visibility in gallery spaces - the best and efficient places within a space for maximum visibility of guards and cameras - via Wikipedia:

The art gallery problem or museum problem is a well-studied visibility problem in computational geometry. It originates from a real-world problem of guarding an art gallery with the minimum number of guards who together can observe the whole gallery. In the computational geometry version of the problem the layout of the art gallery is represented by a simple polygon and each guard is represented by a point in the polygon.

More Here

[scienceisbeauty]

A Knot Zoo.

[erinkilkenny]

[proofofprime]

17 year Cicada emergence .gif, because I had to see it animate.

[tetrarch]