Shooting a Stop-motion Video Through Drops of Water

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check out the making of here: vimeo.com/65155966 We have also started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

We've seen amazing things shot through falling drops of water before.​ But this is something different. Synchronizing  2,000 shots through falling drops of water to create this stop-motion promo for IdN Magazine is truly outstanding.

The video, “Entropy”, was created by Physalia

 They built a custom Arduino-based system to capture each drop in precisely the right spot.

The early tests and making-of video shed a lot of light on the amazing process. ​

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts

Entropy is the randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system, and a measure of the loss of information in a transmitted signal or message. It is heat death, it is inevitable social decline and degeneration- in a closed system, it is accountable chaos. 2000 pictures compose this piece- that is, 2000 perfect different water drops into which we mapped an animation. Droplets that behave and look strangely similar at the stage of less entropy, and become more disordely as they splash. You can check the piece here: https://vimeo.com/59997489 We have started a new blog with this piece, with an in-depth post about it. You can read the long version here: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-long-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-larga/ or else have a peek to the shorter one: In English: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-short-version/ In Spanish: http://physaliablog.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/entropy-version-corta/ Credits: Direction & Production: Physalia Comissioned: IdN Magazine Audio: Cypheraudio Programming: Jordi Planas & Physalia Making Of Pictures: Albert Treblah ------------------------------------------------------- www.physaliastudio.com Join Physalia: facebook.com/pages/Physalia-Studio/312137322501?ref=ts