Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
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Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
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Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#2Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#3Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#4Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
>YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content
They're all about "YouTube Shorts" now, of course that will change soon enough.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#5Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
I watched it at 2.25x to cut it down to ~13m, but even at that speed I agree a lot of videos are unnecessarily dragged out.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#6Some asides...
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The purple glasses they wear are didymium. Photographers use a less intense version of that material as a "red enhancer filter." The spectra of the glasses ( https://www.colby.edu/chemistry/CH332/laboratory/didym-spec.... ) have a very low transmission from 572 nm to 585 nm. That's a yellowish color. The sodium vapor lights (those yellow street lights) are 589 nm. For photography, if you block the yellow out of a muddy brownish-red you get a more vibrant red. For glass blowers, the yellow flame around the glass is the sodium in the material ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_test - look at the sodium line). By blocking that yellow light, a glass blower is able to more clearly see through the flame to glass.
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For people who are interested an intersection of STEM and art... there is a demand for scientific glassblowers. ( https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/10/21172370/scientific-glass... - the woman in the article is https://www.phoenixmag.com/2017/10/01/christine-roeger/ who is a third generation glass blower - my father learned to fix a few items in the chemistry lab from her grandfather).
> She’s one of about 650 scientific glassblowers in the U.S., one of only a dozen or so women in the field, and one of even fewer third-generation scientific glassblowers. Running Arizona State University’s Glassblowing Facility as a one-woman operation, she’s carrying on a long but unheralded tradition that goes back to the makers of Galileo’s thermometer and Thomas Edison’s light bulb.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#7Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
It's entertainment. People don't want to just look at the results for 10 seconds. What would they do with the next 29 minutes 50 seconds? They want to watch people and hear them talk, make jokes, work on setting up the experiment, etc. Same reason Mythbusters isn't 30 seconds per myth.
You could just read scientific papers if you're looking to condense knowledge transfer per time.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#8Dustin’s high speed videos are an incredible treasure trove of science and engineering to learn from.
I have a hard time know he works in weapons of war for a living.
Re: Prince Rupert's Drop vs Molten Glass [video]
#9Here is the gallery of finished pieces in the artist's shop: https://orbixhotglass.com/product-category/prince-ruperts-dr...
I am quite sure I saw #01 at $10k earlier today and it's now higher, so I suspect he found out he initially misjudged what Destin's advice of "priced not to sell" would need to mean.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does it all have to be 30 minutes though? Not just him to be sure but I’m not a fan of YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content which just seems to have made everyone pad out every topic as much as they can. Very rare have I seen 30 minute videos that truly deserve that time commitment.
>YouTube’s crusade to incentivize long form content They're all about "YouTube Shorts" now, of course that will change soon enough.
Shorts are mostly just “here’s a weird or unexpected thing, look how weird or unexpected it is”. There’s also regular, formulaic stuff like Half as Interesting which tend to be about one paragraph of information laboriously spread out over five minutes of generic stock footage and painfully tedious jokes.
YouTube, at its best, are the videos where someone genuinely interested in a topic can show you why it’s interesting and hold your attention, allowing the content to dictate the length. CGP Grey probably being the most perfect prototypical example of this. Or it could come in the form of a Richard Feynman lecture, with absolutely no production value needed beyond reasonably intelligible audio.