Why Didn’t School Science Look This Beautiful?

Why Didn’t School Science Look This Beautiful?

Looking like something straight out of a sci-fi film, it might shock you to hear that these images aren’t taken from the set of a new Alien film, but are real photographs of scientific experiments.

Captured by Pery Burge, artist-in-residence at Exeter University, UK, she refers to her work as “artistic flow visualisation”. In other words, she captures the often chaotic motion of fluids — bubbles, vortices, diffusion, and other fluid instabilities — to create rich, powerful images. The results are equal parts psychedelic, sci-fi and real science. And we love them.

You can ogle more of Burge’s work on her website, Chronoscapes. [Pery Burge via Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics]

Images by Pery Burge


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