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When you were at high school, maths was probably an uninspiring string of algebra you had to crunch through. Get to the cutting edge of computational fluid dynamics, though, and it all starts to look a hell of a lot more pretty.
These images represent incredibly complex fluid flows, and were generated suing supercomputers by researchers at the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota. From the top, these images show off examples of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability, the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, and finally some good ol’ fashioned turbulence.
The best bit? They’re available as high-res image files so you can download them and use them as your desktop background. [LCSE via Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics]
Images by LCSE
The Rainbow Spew Experiment: Vomit Has Never Looked So Pretty
Refraction Has Never Looked as Beautiful as This
Samsung's Note Stylus Has Never Looked Stupider
So speaks someone who has never contemplated the beauty of fractals before. I suggest we take away his Geek card (if he ever had one to begin with).
I’m just happy that “Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics” is a thing!
I’m going to sue a supercomputer just to get images like these too….. now, where Thompson’s Teraflop Directory……
no reason the images wouldn’t work as backgrounds for a multi-layered piece, but on they’re own, as art? not for me