Takeshi Murata's Optical Illusion


An Incredible Melting Chrome Orb … Or Is It an Illusion? The trippy animation comes from Takeshi Murata, who utilized old-school animation principles in order to capture the orb ripples and drips. The illusion/animation is called Melter 3-D and Murata used repeating zoetrope animations along with some high-tech gloss in order to trick you. Essentially, syncing the spinning of the sphere with the blinking of the strobe is what creates the looping melting effect.

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NASA Physicist Conduct Experiments of Water in Zero Gravity


Recently, a NASA physicist spent his free time experimenting with the physics of water in space. Above, you can see some awesome footage and beautiful images the form water can create when gravity is taken out of the equation.

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