Comments on: Vortex smoke rings created with 3D printed wings http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 18 May 2013 21:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Steve Nordquist http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1675380 Steve Nordquist Sun, 10 Mar 2013 05:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1675380  That was 3 cocoa/iOS bumps ago; maybe http://www.bugman123.com/Math/index.html would be fans from only 2 bumps ago? If you did learn, do you want the practicum (knitting machines for lickability luddites) or the math practicum? http://nynix.com/ just isn't into the eyecandy... http://sourceforge.net/directory/graphics/graphics/fractals/os:linux/freshness:recently-updated/ ...more a matter of what you want to run it on?  That was 3 cocoa/iOS bumps ago; maybe http://www.bugman123.com/Math/index.html would be fans from only 2 bumps ago? If you did learn, do you want the practicum (knitting machines for lickability luddites) or the math practicum? http://nynix.com/ just isn’t into the eyecandy… http://sourceforge.net/directory/graphics/graphics/fractals/os:linux/freshness:recently-updated/ …more a matter of what you want to run it on?

]]> By: Steve Nordquist http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1675334 Steve Nordquist Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1675334 Smokeless cigarettes just got some cred back...as long as they can pull 100G and do (micrograph, I suppose) streak photography. The open question: How will this help us tell kitchen and makerspace entrances apart? Smokeless cigarettes just got some cred back…as long as they can pull 100G and do (micrograph, I suppose) streak photography. The open question: How will this help us tell kitchen and makerspace entrances apart?

]]> By: oasisob1 http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1672975 oasisob1 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 15:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1672975 I so totally wish Flaming Pear Software would update this: http://www.flamingpear.com/knot.html I never learned one thing about knots except that they were crazy fun to design and color. I so totally wish Flaming Pear Software would update this:
http://www.flamingpear.com/knot.html

I never learned one thing about knots except that they were crazy fun to design and color.

]]> By: annomination http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1672854 annomination Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1672854 Well played.  Well played. 

]]> By: Mark Dow http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1672708 Mark Dow Thu, 07 Mar 2013 06:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1672708 Lighten up; your EM field's in a knot. Lighten up; your EM field’s in a knot.

]]> By: annomination http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1672680 annomination Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1672680 Vortex knots exist in optical speckle, and this has been known for quite some time. There is a paper with a sweet title that describes this called "The Fractality of Lights Darkness." This bubble-hydrofoil video is a classic case of academics over-hyping a cool looking experiment. They should be less loose with statements like "first time a vortex knot has been realized." http://www.phy.bristol.ac.uk/people/dennis_mr/papers/PRL100_053902.pdfd for those of you too lazy to google it. Vortex knots exist in optical speckle, and this has been known for quite some time. There is a paper with a sweet title that describes this called “The Fractality of Lights Darkness.” This bubble-hydrofoil video is a classic case of academics over-hyping a cool looking experiment. They should be less loose with statements like “first time a vortex knot has been realized.”
http://www.phy.bristol.ac.uk/people/dennis_mr/papers/PRL100_053902.pdfd for those of you too lazy to google it.

]]> By: theophrastvs http://boingboing.net/2013/03/06/vortex-smoke-rings-created-wit.html#comment-1672646 theophrastvs Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=216876#comment-1672646 they would've told us if a Möbius strip hydrofoil opened a door to another dimension, wouldn't they? they would’ve told us if a Möbius strip hydrofoil opened a door to another dimension, wouldn’t they?

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