These are photographs of air being expelled from a narrow tube at the bottom of a clear container
into hand soap (clear liquid and nice bubble), clear water (small and confused bubbles),
lamp oil (greenish liquid) and shampoo (blue liquid). Some of the bubbles (top row) were generated by forcing air into
the tube (about 1/2 mm inside diameter) with a hand pump used to blow up balls like footballs and
basketballs, volleyballs or soccer balls, etc. Others, (subsequent rows) maybe the more regular ones in hand soap and the
water ones as well as the lamp oil ones, with a 12 volt inflation pump used for pumping up tires.
Bubbles rising 1365 |
Bubbles rising 1373 |
Bubbles rising 1375 |
Bubbles rising 1380 |
Bubbles rising 1389 |
Bubbles rising 1402 |
Bubbles rising 1409 |
Bubbles rising 1426 |
Bubbles rising 1455 |
Bubbles rising 1458 |
Bubbles rising 1471 |
Bubbles rising 1475 |
Bubbles rising 1511 |
The following set of air bubbles were generated with a large diameter air mattress pump acting through a sportball
inflation needle that was connected to a flexible tube made from an electrical conduit or "wire" from which the
stranded copper wires were removed leaving a plastic tube with about a 1/2 mm diameter through which the air was delivered.
To stiffen the plastic tube and shape its position in the clear plastic container holding the liquids (such as hand soap.
shampoo, lamp oil and water the copper wires were wrapped around the outside of the plastic and this provided the
rigidity needed to stiffen the air delivery tube. In the seven images below the liquid was clear liquid hand soap and the
original photographs were cropped, cleaned up and colorized (100% cyan and 100 % blue in Photoshop). The original
image files remain in the air bubble archive however!
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Rising air bubbles 1561 |
Rising air bubbles 1541 |
Rising air bubbles 1543 |
Rising air bubbles 1547 |
Rising air bubbles 1550 |
Rising air bubbles 1551 |
Rising air bubbles 1558 |
Geometry of soap bubble junctions - Hexagons and Pentagons together!
OK ... here are some photographs that came about as a byproduct of making bubbles. Sometimes the soapy water would spill out of the container and I noticed all the soap bubbles tumbling out. So next time I decided to "catch" these bubbles and put them in the clear container by themselves. They made a most interesting pattern, sort of like on a soccer ball. A pentagonal shape surrounded by five hexagonal figures. Go figure ...
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Cells |
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Cells |
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Cells |
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Cells |
Hexagonal and Pentagonal Cells |
Dripping faucet
OK - the following photographs show the "necking" effect when a drip looses its grip on
the faucet and begins its downward voyage into the sink and out the drain joining
millions of other drips around the world and eventually forming oceans.
Drip water neck 0056 |
Drip water neck 0060 |
Drip water neck 0048 |
Drip water neck 0084 |
Drip water neck 0049 |
Drip water neck 0086 |
Drip water neck 0065 |
Drip water neck 0080 |
Drip water neck 0076 |
Drip water neck 0081 |
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