Ferrofluid Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals

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Ferrofluid is cool stuff, Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima have built a spiral that demonstrates the beauty of the liquid.
Video after the jump.

“Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold ferrofluid. When the music starts, the magnetic field around the tower is strengthened. Spikes of ferrofluid are born from the bottom plate and move up, trembling and rotating around the edge of the iron spiral.
The body of the tower was made by a new technique called “ferrofluid sculpture” that enables artists to create dynamic sculptures with fluid materials. This technique uses one electromagnet, and its iron core is extended and sculpted. The ferrofluid covers the sculpted surface of a three-dimensional iron shape that was made on an electronic NC lathe. The movement of the spikes in the fluid is controlled dynamically on the surface by adjusting the power of the electromagnet. The shape of the iron body is designed as helical so that the fluid can move to the top of the helical tower when the magnetic field is strong enough.
The surface of the tower responds dynamically to its magnetic environment. ”

Via: Make

 

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16 Comments


  1. Wow, just, Wow

    This is awesome, how much Ferrofluid did they use? That stuff is expensive


  2. Would be a lot more cool if it wasn’t preprogrammed to the music


  3. There is a tutorial for making a quart of ferrofluid for 3$, I’ll look around for it


  4. Sweet, this stuffs cool


  6. And when can I buy this as a kit?


  7. Quite sure this is a one of a kind, if a kit were made I am sure it would be big $$$


  8. Has anyone really noticed how beautiful it all is?


  9. how the hell did they get the ferrofluid to go into a spike and then sproute spikes????


  10. ‘Awesome’ is the only possible word…
    To be mentioned the very right choose of the soundtrack.


  11. so sexy its not even funny


  12. “Oh Ferrofluified Christmas Tree, oh Ferrofluified Christmas tree, how lovely are your… eh… branches?”


  13. I love what people are doing with this stuff. This is why NASA needs to have artists in residence.


  14. Just like to mention that these ‘do it yourself’ ‘ferrofluids’ are not, real, truely stable ferrofluids. There is a reason ferrofluid is expensive.


  15. How did they make the ferrofluid synthetic to the music i don’t think that is possible is it?. How much of the fluid did they use? And what type of magnet was used to make it rotate? All these questions yet very few answers…. I’m curious
    Anyways the video was awesome..


  16. You can make the ferrofluid ‘respond’ to the music by having the music control the intensity of the magnetic field. It is the magnetic field the ferrofluid ultimately responds to. They just use electromagnets to do this. You can shape the field, and therefore the ferrofluid, by using various sculptures in combination with varying the field strength.

    the quick & dirty ‘ferrofluids’ do not work very well or for very long because they are not real ferrofluids.

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