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This paper describes recent progress in flow visualization techniques from the viewpoint of visual art incorporating fluid motion. The images of fluid art introduced here are categorized into four groups: the reflected or refracted patterns of free surface motion in nature and in a controlled environment, the coherent turbulent phenomena of fluid flow, and the fluid motion induced by the physical properties of fluids. It is shown that flow visualization techniques, which were originally developed in the field of engineering, have been successfully applied to the creation of artistic images.
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Nobuyuki Fujisawa: After graduating from Tohoku University (Dr E. 1983), he joined Gunma University and worked as an Associate Professor since 1991. He has been a Professor of Niigata University since 1997. He is interested in flow visualization, measurement and control of thermal and fluid flow phenomenon in engineering and science.
Monique Verhoeckx: After graduating from Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam (MSc. 1993), she worked as a Director of documentaries for Dutch National Television (NPS). As a media artist and film maker her fascination with the interactions between Art and Science has taken various forms, such as art project ‘Still Waters’ and ‘Treasure Mountain’.
Dana Dabiri: He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, since 2002. His interests are to develop new and advanced quantitative flow imaging techniques to study fundamental fluid flows such as turbulence, mixing, vortex dynamics, and heat transfer problems.
Mory Gharib: He is a Hans w. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and a Professor of Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology since 1993. His interests are in the areas of advanced quantitative flow visualization to study fluid flows such as Micro-fluidics, cardiac flows and vortex dominated flows such as flying and swimming.
Jean Hertzberg: She is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder since 1991. Her research is in experimental fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on vortex dominated flows for combustion and cardiovascular applications. She is also an avid amateur photographer and firefighter.
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Fujisawa, N., Verhoeckx, M., Dabiri, D. et al. Recent progress in flow visualization techniques toward the generation of fluid art. J Vis 10, 163–170 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181827
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