Morpho Towers: Art like T-1000
This may be old news, as it came up in Engadget a few months ago, but as it was surprising to me to see something like this, I thought it would be worth posting.
Above is a video of Morpho Towers, a project by Japanese artist Sachiko Kodama in which two metal towers are magnetically charged according to the playing music. The liquid is called FerroFluid:
“is a liquid which becomes strongly polarised in the presence of a magnetic field. It is a colloidal mixture comprising extremely small magnetic particles suspended in a synthetic oil. The particles are coated with a soap or detergent to prevent them from clumping together.”
In practice, it looks like T-1000, from Terminator 2. Unbelievably cool. The metal in the fluid reacts to the different proportions of magnetism in the towers, creating fluid forms of a rigid geometry that seemed only possible with computer graphics.
I just couldn’t help realizing this is like one of many generative art projects coming through to the physical world. It seems so abstract, while it’s actually happening. Really worth checking out.
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