He use to be my high school physics teacher. Its supper weird to have him pop up on my feed, especially since he made this video 8 years ago. He would always do cool experiments like this in class to explain difficult concepts. He's probably the reason I became an engineer. Hope all is well sir!
@@tomriddle5102 Fair, perhaps improperly seeing depth would be a better description. Obviously none of the pendulums are moving perpendicular to the initial swing, or orbiting horizontally around any shared central point, but it definitely looks like a spiral pattern at times or even a double helix. The whole illusion is similar to how watching a drill your eye tries to follow percieved motion upward or downward, yet the single horizontal section of the screw pattern is just rotating about the same plane. Or chasing lights, which are actually just flashing in a sequence. It becomes a challenge to focus on a single bulb and not have your eye move along the strand.
They're not all relatively prime at all, as you can clearly see from the ones which are not regularly synchronizing throughout a single period of the entire wave.
@@AnyMotoUSA: No, it's not close to being relatively prime at all, and it doesn't even make any attempt at it. Calling this relatively prime is simply a total misunderstanding and mislabeling based on not understanding what such a system would look like if it were relatively prime, or what being relatively prime actually means.
@@hoon_sol my understanding is that, due to the decreasing momentum of each pendulum over time there is a resonance that breaks away from synchronization and then retains it when the resonance reoccurs. To maintain the prime synchronization it would need a consistent source of momentum, or am I misunderstanding the problem?
I agree with the critique about wanting a close-up, but apparently Mr. Turton has much going on, and they say the busiest people get the most accomplished. So, I'm guessing he wanted to put out this video before he lost time to make it perfectly. That's either his garage, classroom, or both, and we'll never know if putting the camera on the other side of the wave was a bad or restricted shot. He has more wave videos on his channel.
I like that for these guys the pendulum is everything. They gave it a black background; they didn't care at all what else was in the shot, they didn't worry about the lighting in the rest of the room, all they wanted was to observe and record the pendulum.
Thank you for your submission. This is the first pendulum wave I've seen, so I'm withholding judgment on whether it is the world's best ever. I'll return with my assessment after further research.
I always imagine music playing in harmony then turning to a chaos of notes only to come back to a beautiful song then slowly drift back to chaos. C"est la vie!
I find I interesting that it creates helixes, that range from 1 all the way up to 5 strands. But they also reverse in rotation as they count up and down. Really cool.
Everything in that project thought out so precisely down to the most minute detail; and ruined for us by a rushed camera angle. Refilm it and you'll get a million views, great art piece
The angle is quite right to allow us to see a continuous creation of moving shapes of many kinds, which would be less visible from a front or lateral point of view.
Most of the effects can only be seen from one specific angle. None of the pendulums are "rotating" Its an optical illusion created by the camera angle. Viewed from too close or dead on its not very impressive.
I think this is awesome. I might have to build one like it for the science museum I am starting. I see that the lengths are very close to correct, and I am thinking about how to tune something like this.
Am I the only one who thinks the camera angle and single take is perfectly fine? It's basically like just being in the room. So sick of modern edited videos which try to be cool with a jumpcut every 1.5 seconds, extreme close up shots, slowmo, abstract shot of the wire, top down cos why not, shot of the shadow on the bench for good measure, etc, etc... makes me want to puke from nausea
Well done Max. I have the idea of making one hanging from the ceiling and with golden spheres already for a while. Might be time to do it. Would you like to share the measurements? What kind of string have you used? Not sure what to take which is not strechable. I want to use heavy spheres. What kind of spheres have you used? I thought of filling christmas balls with concrete for some weight. I think heavier material is swinging more accurately. I also like the mechanism how to get the spheres in motion. Would you mind to share more details about that please? Thanks
