My final project is a slightly larger than life size wire sculpture of a hand with water dripping from the pointer finger in multiple locations, sitting in a 10x10x10 black laser cut plywood enclosure filled with a few centimeters of water. With a strobe light I soldered from a kit that has a potentiometer able to adjust the flashing up to 60 flashes per second, changing the flashing frequencies, it can make the water dripping appear to fall in longer or shorter drops, and even appear to slow the fall of the water droplets or even reverse their fall, sending them upwards, all with the water pump and drips never actually changing.
It was a bit difficult to capture the strobe effect while the frequency was being adjusted during the video, as even the 4k camera had a hard time refocusing with each flash happening so fast, but with a few videos the different effects the strobe can have on the dripping are visible.
10/17/21
A bit of an informal update, we had a light up mister at home that I stuck in the fountain that adds some fun halloween element to it. I haven’t seen it in the dark yet but I’ll take some better pictures of this version soon. The added light on the mister wouldn’t allow the strobe light illusion to work at the same time with it, but I just thought I’d share how my project is still changing even after our class ended.
