Morpho Towers

Unbelievable kinetic ferrofluid sculpture by Sachiko Kodama and Yasushi Miyajima:

(YouTube via noah)

More on ferrofluids (Wikipedia); I didn’t understand at first what my son was saying when he showed this to me and insisted that these shapes were liquid.

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