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Ink can leave an impression on paper, but it can also release an unpredictable trace in water. That's what I found out the other day, when I was flushing out the decade old ink in a 1950's Japanese eyedropper pen I recently received. Watching the drama unfold is nothing short of mesmerising. I believe new inks can also do the trick. Enjoy!

 

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Your photos and those videos of laminar flow in corn syrup make me want to make fountain pen ink art in corn syrup! Though I suppose you'd have to prepare corn syrup dyed with FP ink and not just dump the FP ink straight in. Would be interesting to try placing dots of color at different radiuses to form a picture somewhere down the line when you spin the jig... Not that I'd be very good at it since I can't even draw on a plain old sheet of paper, but it'd be a ton of fun :P

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Azure Flash, the churning of the corn syrup is a lot of fun to watch. And the amazing thing is that the colour pattern is reversible when you churn the syrup the opposite direction. I am not sure if fountain pen ink would work in this setup, but there is no harm to try.

 

Ink in water is something quite different, and it is never predictable. It speaks of the transientness of things, of life itself. Okay, I am getting too serious!

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Your photos and those videos of laminar flow in corn syrup make me want to make fountain pen ink art in corn syrup! Though I suppose you'd have to prepare corn syrup dyed with FP ink and not just dump the FP ink straight in. Would be interesting to try placing dots of color at different radiuses to form a picture somewhere down the line when you spin the jig... Not that I'd be very good at it since I can't even draw on a plain old sheet of paper, but it'd be a ton of fun :P

 

That is so cool! I've never seen such a thing.

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There is a not very good book on biomechanics from the 1930s that tried to use this phenomenon to explain the evolution of the medusae (jellyfish) shape.

 

The book did explain, however, why a small dog like a terrier can run up a hill as fast as a horse, a point which is completely off-topic.

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