What do natural magnetic fields look like? This extraordinary footage from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory (UC Berkeley) gives you a glimpse and reveals their “chaotic, ever-changing geometries.”
Magnetic Fields Made Visible
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This ain’t April, right? That video clearly is manipulated and rather to be understood as a piece of motion graphic artistry.
…cause you’r post sounds like you’re actually believing that.
It’s not a real footage, they used sound-controlled CGI and 3D compositing to create these beautiful effects. Magnetic fields are still invisible. But this is great work.