Antibubbles are peculiar and ephemeral creations. A bubble typically encloses a gas within a thin layer of fluid. As the name suggests, an antibubble does the opposite: it’s a thin Keep reading
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Slipping Through a Soap Film
A droplet falling at high speed can pass through a soap film without breaking it. On impact, the drop stretches the soap film and ultimately only passes through by getting Keep reading
“Kingdom of Colours”
Oil, paint, and soap combine to create a polychrome landscape in Thomas Blanchard’s “Kingdom of Colours” short film. Colorful droplets of paint coated in oil form anti-bubbles that skim along Keep reading
Antibubble Vortex Rings
Bubbles are familiar, but antibubbles are a bit more unusual. An antibubble typically has a liquid-air-liquid interface, with a thin shell of air separating a liquid droplet from the surrounding Keep reading
Antibubbles
Antibubbles–a liquid droplet surrounded by a thin film of gas and immersed in more liquid–are fragile things. This video explores how antibubbles behave when placed in proximity to a tornado-like Keep reading