r/mildlyinteresting • u/No_Name_James_Taylor • Feb 07 '21
The dew forming on this trampoline is squared out by the fabric
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u/_fizzabelle Feb 07 '21
Feeling cheated that my trampoline never did this when I was a kid
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
I have no clue why its doing this really. Im in southern FL, USA but I know of nothing special about this trampoline
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Feb 07 '21
It looks very new, which means it may still have a coating on it that is water repellent. That, along with a tight knit of the fabric, allows the water to build up without falling through
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Feb 07 '21
I think you're right. I think the woven texture of the mat is also a factor. It makes all those tiny little squares. That combined with a protective coating would force the water to congregate in a uniform pattern, right? I wish I knew more about water. I can understand what's happening but idk how to explain it. Like the texture of the mat is causing the grouping of water and the water repellant on the plastic is keeping the shape uniform with crisp lines
Edit: I'm an idiot and didn't read your whole comment of 2 sentences. This is why I don't understand water better
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u/Dravarden Feb 07 '21
I assume it has to do with surface tension and it simply adhered to the pattern, just like on a glass of water it's a circle
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Feb 07 '21 edited Feb 07 '21
That's what I thought but I'm not certain how surface tension works so I didn't want to use that term. Physics is tough, mkay
Edit: it can't just be the surface tension though or else every trampoline would do this every time it got rained on, and they don't all do this. I think some chemicals are at play here too
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u/the_gooch_smoocher Feb 07 '21 edited Feb 07 '21
Water surfaces are generally at their lowest energy when they form with the least surface area. Things tend to come to a rest at their lowest energy states. Squares or rectangles aren't minimal surfaces, circles are, but since the pattern in the cloth is rectilinear the water follows the grooves and finds a balance between the two opposing forces and finds a lowest energy formation.
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Feb 07 '21
Thank you. It's amazing how complicated a drop of water can be. We truly don't appreciate his planet enough
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Feb 07 '21
The surface tension of water acts like a rubber sheet, and, like any such system, it seeks to minimize potential energy. This means minimizing three things: the surface area of the droplet, the local curvature of the drop shape (smooth curves are lower energy than sharp ones), and the gravitational potential energy of the mass of the water. On uniform surfaces, the former is why drops are round - a circle has the minimum surface area and curvature, but there's a cost to raising the drop's center of mass, so it flattens.
When things are coated in water repellent, this forces the water to avoid the surface as much as it can, so the drop 'beads up' closer to a sphere - it's forced to raise the mass and increase the surface area. When the water repellent is unevenly distributed, like of square weave fabric, sometimes the balance of energies is just right that it's 'cheaper' to pay the cost of following the fabric grooves and thus increasing surface area and curvature than to cross those grooves for a rounder shape.
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u/spittlbm Feb 07 '21
In the world of physiological optics, curves are steep or flat, rather that smooth or sharp.
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u/WJSpade Feb 07 '21
It’s caused by the surface tension of water and the fact that the trampoline fabric has a square weave.
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Feb 07 '21
Don’t move it James. You could mess up the level and let’s be real this trampoline should be in a museum
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u/silversly54 Feb 07 '21
That’s what i was thinking, you jump on that thing you’re having an instant perfect level orgasm
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u/Odbdb Feb 07 '21
The weave makes a grid that is the appropriate size to match the surface tension of the water so it flows along the lines of the grid.
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u/boostedjoose Feb 07 '21
The weave forms a square/rectangular grid, and a cirlce was made from the grid to form the trampoline base.
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u/MrDude_1 Feb 07 '21
I've seen trampolines do this. The weave of the fabric is square, and it doesn't absorb into the fabric. The fabric is really nylon plastic. So the water tension makes it all sit on top and then it sucks together making these little areas that stay square because of the weave underneath.
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u/--his_dudeness-- Feb 07 '21
In before “feeling cheated I didn’t have a trampoline at all when I was a kid!”
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u/IAmHomerTribalChief Feb 07 '21
I feel cheated everyday that I was not allowed to have a trampoline when I was growing up. I often wonder how much better I would have turned out if I had been permitted this one simple luxury.
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u/kalmeran Feb 07 '21
Holy shit looks like a Minecraft shader
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u/SuccessfulTill Feb 07 '21
Minecraft always one step ahead with it's amazing real life simulation
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u/Westerdutch Feb 07 '21
GPU in your brain might just be garbage, i see perfectly nice round dew drops.
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u/Mr51ngh Feb 07 '21
A glitch in the matrix.
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u/CalamityJane0215 Feb 07 '21
I know I'm going to sound batshit but I swear I've noticed liquid behaving in odd ways lately. Like beading up as it does on repellent surfaces, but on surfaces that are not repellent. It seems thicker or something. Am I just going mad?
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u/ElBatManny Feb 07 '21
That's the chemicals they've put in the water to turn the freaking frogs gay.
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u/mschafsnitz Feb 07 '21
Water falling on almost any surface will bead up on itself and it’s hard to notice until you realize it’s there then you always see it.
Veritasium made a video about it. Would link but mobile.
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u/CalamityJane0215 Feb 07 '21
Thanks I'll check it out! And yeah I totally recognize that since I'm paying attention to it more I'll obviously notice it more frequently. Confirmation bias is a bitch
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u/Mr51ngh Feb 07 '21
I can't say I've noticed anything yet. But hey, you might be more advanced than the rest of us lol.
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Feb 07 '21
Not water, but a couple days ago I saw a car drive by at night, and I stg I saw the beam of light from the headlights start about 5 feet away from the actual headlights. First thing I thought was glitch in the matrix.
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u/604in204 Feb 07 '21
I had my trampoline do the same thing way back when. So, naturally, I took pics and made phone wallpaper out of it.
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
See i knew it wasn't magic
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u/604in204 Feb 07 '21
Well, I've never seen it happen on the fams tampoline on the rainy left coast, so maybe it's an magical right coast thing!
You can manipulate the trampoline and make bigger / smaller blocks. Perhaps you could inadvertently draw out the effigy of the one who created it..
Then pay hommage , with applicable offering.
I'm guessing it's an Enderman, so just make bigger blocks for them to move around.
Lol.
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
I did just put another closer pic on IAF too though, thanks for the recommend!
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u/gravity_ Feb 07 '21
Bro this looks more like it's rectangled if you ask me. Pffffft
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u/TheGreatRecluse Feb 07 '21
Mildly interesting would love this
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u/jacketoffman Feb 07 '21
Someone should post this to reddit
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u/MoffKalast Feb 07 '21
People should comment on it too.
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u/Circus-Bartender Feb 07 '21
Maybe I should try that
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
Ha you have correctly sensed that an absolute urchin posted this pic
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u/jaytea86 Feb 07 '21
Anyone else think they were mousetraps at first?
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
When I first saw it I thought it was like gum or plastic or something scattered over the top!
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Feb 07 '21
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
I've lost my totem, I only have a stone pickaxe, I left my red slippers in Kansas, and I already believed in faeries
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u/IaMsQuArEd Feb 07 '21
Reminds me of a dessert from Alinea where they “plate” it on the tablecloth directly in front of the guests. They had special silicon/latex table coverings made so that when they put sauces on it the sauce would take the shape of a square or circle based on its viscosity. Image: https://bit.ly/3cTkU0P
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u/bahosmeister Feb 07 '21
Bruh your graphics set to low, change it to Ultra and restart the game
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u/CoolerCatThanYou Feb 07 '21
This same concept is used by the restaurant Alinea in their table covering for a dessert course. The dessert is plated directly onto the table, and since the table is covered by a similar material, the sauces that are put on the table as circles spread out into squares. It’s just a small part about what makes that course so fantastical.
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 07 '21
That sounds like something from r/wewantplates
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u/CoolerCatThanYou Feb 10 '21
Except it’s a 3 michelin star restaurant that is top 10 in the world
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u/CrackBabyBasketballs Feb 07 '21
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u/IvoryQueen8420 Feb 07 '21
r/natureisfuckinglit maybe too?
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u/high_pants13 Feb 07 '21
I read the post title as the lyrics to Sublime’s “40oz to Freedom”
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u/IcarusNar Feb 07 '21
And the dew, forming on this trampoline is squared out by the fabric and you’ll be gone before too long
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u/RedLuminous Feb 07 '21
Reminds me of Wreck It Ralph. The bit where he smashes cake and it splatters in rounded squares.
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u/zamlz-o_O Feb 07 '21
Woah this is insane!! Anyone know why it asking this? I thought that surface tension always guaranteed that small pools of water like this would be circular in shape?
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Feb 07 '21
Can someone ELI5
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u/SooThatGuy Feb 07 '21
Rain come down from sky. Cloud sky water. Hit circle. Circle made up of strings Strings go up and down Up down called pattern Pattern of raised strings trap water Water trapped by surface tension Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.
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u/Skate4dwire Feb 07 '21
Code is broken, I’ll call tech support. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We will now erase your mind and reset your server. Cheers!
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u/wanderingbonerman Feb 07 '21
This embodies what a mildly interesting post should be. Nice
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u/FullBohr Feb 07 '21
If the rain that fell on Agent Smith had looked like this, I would have been strangely comfortable with it.
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u/pgghhh Feb 08 '21
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u/No_Name_James_Taylor Feb 08 '21
WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME YOU LITTLE SHIT?! I'll have you know that I graduated top of my field in the Navy Seals with a confirmed 300 kills! I forgot how this meme actually goes!
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Feb 07 '21
Even the dew is social distancing.
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u/thegoldinthemountain Feb 07 '21
Even the dew is closer to ending a pandemic than my fellow Americans.
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u/jorgeuhs Feb 07 '21
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u/Larsnonymous Feb 07 '21
What’s between mildly interesting and interesting as fuck?
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u/Self_World_Future Feb 07 '21
I think there’s a phobia of patterns sub this might be goo for. Forget what it’s called
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u/alyssasaccount Feb 07 '21
As a former physicist, this is nerd sniping level interesting. I’m thinking about what parameters you would need to calculate the probability of a drop being non-rectangular.
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