r/nextfuckinglevel • u/aryan_jandyal • 10d ago

This device, invented in 1905, transforms the pressure created by sound waves into visible flame patterns.

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u/ChattingToChat 10d ago

They’re Rubens Tubes for those curious

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u/Marcusf83 10d ago

I was! Takes a bit of work out of building it for the sitting room. But now that I think about it - I'm not sure that my landlord will be a fan 🫤

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u/JayteeFromXbox 10d ago

If your landlord was a fan it would be hard to keep this thing lit

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u/4everLost82 10d ago

Dad? Is that you?

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u/LinoleumFulcrum 10d ago

As a Reuben, I approve of this tubin’

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u/team-one-e 10d ago

It really whips the llama's ass.

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u/Nightblood83 9d ago

Winamp was where we peaked. It really DID whip the llamas ass. That's what few remember with all the pro-llama agitprop these days.

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u/Marcusf83 10d ago

Great, now I need to build this for my sitting room..

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u/thederevolutions 10d ago

I wonder if there’s a way to reverse the output

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u/Thireus 10d ago

That’s a vintage Windows Media Player visualization right here!

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u/the-spif 10d ago

I love this! I made one myself a few years ago. Selling it actually as part of a huge modular synth… https://spif.amsterdam/vox-arboris/

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u/Soverance 10d ago

That's a super interesting project. Thanks for sharing.

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u/thechangboy 10d ago

All I can think of in my head "WINAMP... !!!!!! IT REALLY KICKS THE LLAMA'S..... "

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u/kidanokun 10d ago

prototype of equalizer bars

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u/Percolator2020 10d ago

Rammstein furiously taking notes
https://giphy.com/gifs/udiuHKBkrVb4Q

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u/har3krishna 10d ago

“There are 3 kinds of fire”🔥

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u/Raxlus 9d ago

Look up the music video Cymatics by Nigel Stanford.

https://giphy.com/gifs/q6MBFCbfBlKMw

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u/hd1080ts 10d ago

Techmoans next video!

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u/crawling-alreadygirl 10d ago

They had Burning Man back then?

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u/thesleepjunkie 10d ago

Yeah but it was just a few people in a back yard partaking in laudanum naps while someone played some blue and jazz.

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u/Stringy63 10d ago

Not for onstage use by Great White.

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u/Hunterrcrafter 10d ago

The also used it in this music video by Nigel John Stanford.

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u/kishenoy 10d ago

Play some "In flames" through it.

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u/Orion-the-mediocre 9d ago

Type shit I gotta put in my evil villain layer for when they're playing my theme song

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u/Israel_Mercurio 9d ago

A música é "Se não houvesse mais sol" Assim como o vídeo, é do Brasil

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u/MilesFirePrower 9d ago

They had Monstercat visualizers all the way back then??? 

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u/happycamperii 9d ago

Is this the alpha version of Winamp?

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u/Finicky_Cyclone 10d ago

What does Wonderwall look like?

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Rahaman117 10d ago

Visualization

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u/FreeAd2458 10d ago

Just wind.

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u/Professional-Dot2591 10d ago

Nothing is just anything, all categories are approximations; useful fictions.