Fluid dynamics

[mamagotcha]

This is definitely one of the cooler knitting projects I have EVER seen:

Fluid Sculpture from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

Hmmm... I have a engineer friend who works with silicone tubing...

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

That is fascinating!

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but it seriously just looks like IV tubing to me. Especially with all the blood I've been hanging lately...

[mamagotcha.livejournal.com]

Then this is for you.

(Specifically, the first column, sixth row down... but really, probably lots of them!)

[safetybitch.livejournal.com]

You knitters are really weird, you know that, right?
Hahahahaha!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

The droplets from a distance look like bugs. Which would have been kind of kickass, to send an ant colony or something through it.

[tracy826.livejournal.com]

That is seriously cool. I'm picturing a wall hanging, some sort of lace pattern, with continually changing colors of fluid moving through it (I have to agree the red is a little too blood-like though!). But it looks a little difficult too - tubing flexible to knit but not so soft it would kink.

That really got the creative part of my brain up and running this morning!

Ohh - another idea - for kids who have to have blood draws, little animal shapes or something in the tubing as a distraction from what's going on. Like a silly straw. Never could convince my kids not to look while it was happening, so better to give them something different to look at?

[kristal-science.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome idea, I would looove the silly-straw blood draw!

I have all this tiny tubing around from my insulin pump, and I have thought to braid it or weave it and heat-seal colored water inside, but this is a million times better! The beads of fluid making their journey around... fascinating.

[tara-doula.livejournal.com]

That was really cool. And the new ideas forming here are even better!