Superhydrophobic surfaces resist wetting from water, but it turns out they can also trigger interesting behaviors in the tiny droplets condensing on the surface. High-speed video reveals that when two condensate droplets coalesce, the energy released by surface tension causes the new droplet to jump off the surface. The phenomenon is the same as one observed in some types of mushroom—when a condensate droplet touches a wetted spore, the spore is ejected from the mushroom. (Video credit: J Boreyko)
Tiling by noelb using Processing (Processing.org)
Islamic parquet deformation as described here [pdf].
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Roentgenizdat is the practice of imprinting an audio track on to discarded x-ray plates to then be played on a record player or gramophone, developed by underground music pirates in the Soviet Union during the 1950s until it was made illegal by the Kremlin in 1959. The name roentgenizdat comes from the combination of roentgen ray (another word for X-ray) and samizdat (“self-published”, or underground literature). As well as literature, much western music (including rock and jazz, etc.) was banned… X-ray records were of poor quality and seldom lasted for more than a few months, but they still contained the precious forbidden music, and as such were treasured by all who could get their hands on them - Dave Loder
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Pi Day 2012 pie (aperiodictable) with apple numbers
via Serious Eats
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A Stop Motion short of Vinyl Records used to recreate the visual of a real-time audio frequency from the song by Benga.
Waves installation by Daniel Palacios.
A smoke wire shows the deformation of streamlines around a swept-winged micro air vehicle (MAV). These crafts typically feature wingspans smaller than one foot and, thus, never develop the type of flow fields associated with larger fixed-wing airplanes. This complicates theoretical predictions of lift and drag for MAVs as well as making them difficult to control. MAVs have numerous commercial and military applications, including search and rescue operations. (Photo credit: Tom Omer)
See the center, the thinnest point where all the energy of past and future converge, that is the Present moment, the eternal here and now!