This link has been bookmarked by 69 people . It was first bookmarked on 08 Aug 2006, by Bill York.
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It all started when my friend Jesse told me that if you get a strobe light fast enough, you can make it look like dripping water is going in slow motion or even backwards. This phenomenon happens because strobe lights can 'capture' an instant in time and allow your eyes to see it as lasting longer than an instant.
So if the strobe light captures consecutive instants of time just out of sync with a periodic occurrence such as dripping water from a faucet, it can appear that the drops are moving slowly or even backwards.
Of course, since we had no strobe light of sufficient speed, Jesse and I never really pursued the concept.
A few months later, some casual surfing brought me to the artwork of Shigeko Hirakawa, who does some modern-art style installations over in France. I noticed something familiar about the water he uses:
http://shigeko-hirakawa.com/NewSite/Eau_E.html
I had seen that color of water before, on the TV show Smallville. I was intrigued, and after much googling (for "fluorescent dye") I found out that the dye was called Fluorescein.
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08 Aug 06
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