Tim Alex Jacobs' Latest FLIP Fluid Simulator Uses Flip-Dots for a Soothing Sound
Mitxela's Tim Alex Jacobs has showcased another fluid simulation project, this time on a somewhat larger scale than a wearable pendant — and based around a highly-audible flip-dot display.
"For the last few years I've been building all kinds of fluid simulations," Jacobs explains by way of introduction to the project. "While most of them are still secret (I'll publish them eventually) they all have a common deficit, that is, the LED liquid is utterly silent. I'd been wondering whether I could simulate some swishing noises when it occurred to me that an electromechanical display, such as flip-dots, would make the noise for us. Realizing that it would also make a great pun sealed the deal."
Flip-dot displays, as the name implies, are a form of dot-matrix bitmap display in which physical markers are flipped to show either a dark or light side — forming, from a distance, a one-bit...
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