I've got one of these devices and it keeps giving me this image.
Posted on 08/23/2016 8:11:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog
From zebra stripes to a honeycomb lattice, nature features breathtaking patterns. Now, physicists based in China have found a way to recreate these natural motifs in 3-D — using just a little electricity. Their new device discharges plasma — air and argon gas charged with electricity — or the same stuff found in neon lights. Using different voltages, the researchers were able to create various 3-D shapes in the plasma. “To experts, this work could advance the development of plasma physics,” co-inventor Lifang Dong of Hebei University told the NewsHour. “But to non-experts, it could explain a whole range of natural phenomena.”
This work began in 2000, when Dong started noticing natural patterns while working with dielectric barrier discharges (DBD). DBD is an electrical discharge technique utilized in tasks like water purification, dying fabrics and sterilizing medical instruments. But Dong’s creation, reported today in the journal Physics of Plasmas, is the first version able to manipulate patterns in 3-D.
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What next? Etch-a-Sketch?
Lol. More like Light Bright. Or was it Night Bright? Your name is sparklite2 so you might know.
What about light bright?
Does Dong need food?
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Maybe plasma could even be used as a shielding device, since it absorbs EM radiation?
Cool, make one you can display in a glass globe and it’ll be a big hit at Spencer’s Gifts.
lite bright for those of a certain age
I've got one of these devices and it keeps giving me this image.
“the researchers were able to create various 3-D shapes in the plasma.”
The next thing you know we will have 3D movies appearing in our homes.
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