great idea! i'd carefully airbrush them some cool metallic color before! the matte black makes details and crevices way hard to see. but those structures might be quite a challenge to encase bubble free, without a vacuum chamber.
My thoughts as well. Start by preparing a base of thickly layered acrylic, allowed to fully dry in advance. Add one more coat and allow it dry just briefly so you have a tacky surface to begin with. That way the ferro paint will adhere quite well to the acrylic base. For resin, I think you could brush on numerous coats of clear acrylic to fill fine gaps and delicate texture, prior to encasing in resin.
I like the spikes of ferrofluid. But I also love the ridges in this paint. They form patterns that look like roses or carnations. To me, this paint is just as beautiful. I'm sorry you had a messy clean-up.
Must admit I did not expect it to be this close to ferripaste... What I really want the most, is to make it more glossy. It is a quite matte when dried. I guess high gloss UV resin would fix it? Thanks for the early watch and comment as always!
@@brainiac75 a quick search shows that UV resin is available in viscosity down to as thin as water. You could dip it then hit it with UV to create a protective shell. Depending on the formulation, maybe one of those would give the gloss finish?
Guess we have the same sense of humour? I laughed way too hard at it myself x) It was just one of those long 10 hours editing days where the 'slide shows' at the end felt too serious and repetitive for me. Decided to break it up and entertain myself (and hopefully my viewers too) with that gimmick. Thanks for watching!
Probably someone already suggested this but you can cast it in a epoxy resin. It will be challenging but I'm sure in the end, you will have a relic from an ancient alien civilization.
I think it'd be a great idea to experiment with a wide range of values for the parameters like distance, layer thickness (volume of the paint you're pouring) and water ratio. I also think it'd be interesting to see if it can be airbrushed for example on scale model kits
Did not think the paint would work this well. I got carried away and made my longest video yet... For video, it is too matte though. Looks better in reality. I may need to invest in a camera with higher dynamic range and HDR capabilities :D Thanks for the early watch and comment!
@@brainiac75Putting a black fluid in a white container may have made the camera "stop down" to reduce the white, which starved the black for exposure. A deep blue or strong red background might show off the black better? (Is what I was thinking before I got to the Comments section. I hesitate to mention this to such a pro, though!) Thanks for the Art + Science today.
Very fascinating process! It's always enjoyable to follow along with a trial-and-error process, it scratches the inquisitive itch. I must say, I really enjoy the visual interest of the blades that the paint formed (possibly more than the Ferro fluid spikes) as they all seemed to form into something truly unique every time. Very interesting!
I nearly posted this on your older video, but glad I continued the binge. For thinning duty, easy-access surfactants can be had under several everyday products. While ordinary dish soap works to a degree, what you're really after are tannins. Green tea has a relatively high concentration of tannins, though they're quite easy to buy in bulk as its own product. This is also the 'secret' ingredient that keeps clay particles in suspension if you've ever had a play with glazes. Your carrier can be an effective solvent (can make recommendations depending on your locale; in the US, acetone and MEK substitutes like xylene are easy to acquire), IPA or even the universal solvent, distilled water. Basically the purer the better to avoid mineral contamination. Ferrofluid works as it does as the ferromagnetic material is broken down to nanometer particle size, often in its carrier of choice during the same reducing process. You can add your mixture into a glass jar in an ultrasonic cleaner for a few cycles and enhance functionality, or if you have a sufficiently powerful blender for Science duty. It will need quite a lot of shearing time to get break down into the finest concentration (90 minutes would be my starting recommendation, but most blenders are not rated for that kind of duty cycle, even the commercial ones. I have a graveyard of sacrificial blenders including a 1500 watt commercial rig).
paint a wall with it and test the sound proofing properties of the spikes, due to the shape of them they should provide some pretty efficient sound proofing.
That stuff is amazing! I think I am actually inspired to art after years! Thanks s much! You could probably add other arcylic mediums, for different textures, or shapes. And would make more damage resistant structures, because I assume it is very fragile when dry. Huh... would look very interesting to mix a some of that 'Black 3.0" acrylic paint (it's pretty much vantablack). Have yet to get that paint myself... ugh... Would make amazing depth or no depth! I can't imagine that space scenes I could create! wow!
This is genuinely interesting. What practical purpose would magnetic paint have for it to be commonly sold? Though, I'm surprised at how close it is to Ferripaste. Great video as always--and not what I expected. A follow-up to this would be quite interesting, to see what you'd do with the sculptures.
It's used for making magnet boards so you can hang things up with magnets like a fridge. You can also use it with chalkboard paint to make magnetic chalk boards.
Good idea, though in my experience a bare magnet at some distance has the most interesting effect on ferrofluid. Will consider a video, where I use electromagnets, inductor coils etc. on ferrofluid. Should be possible to make some interesting patterns with a bit of creativity. Thanks for watching and the suggestion!
The paint could be great for dioramas. Or some sort of tapletop map. Imagine you have a part of the map that belongs to a villain. If you made a bunch of those sculptures and squared them off, they could make great terrain pieces
This is much better than regular ferrofluid because it's much more viscous and shows a much higher definition shape of what the magnetic field looks like.
Ferrofluid is kind of a one-trick fluid with the same pattern over and over. But what a trick it is ;) With that said, I found the magnetic paint to be much better than I expected. Just need to gloss it up for better visuals! Thanks for the early watch and comment as always, Aaron.
If you used a plastic box, put some of the paint inside above the magnet and allowed it to form the spikes then slowly and carefully flooded the box with clear resin I wonder if you could permanently encapsulate the spikes
Some ideas for you: 1. Explain how the levitron spinning top works. 2. Try different form of magnetic bearings - active and passive kinds 3. With small magnets the can lift themselves up in a glass dish with ferrofluid, can your larger magnet lift itself too? Is the high of lift Higher or lower and does the ratio to gauss to size matter? 4. If the large magnet can lift itself how much can it hold compared to the smaller magnets by pounds/kilo to gauss. 5. Can you get on the magnet and take a spin on ferrofluid?
Our clothes dryer recently died and I took it apart and found a good 300g of ultra fine iron dust inside. I immediately thought of this channel when I found it. The dryer had been grinding it’s parts for years.
hmm, using the paint on glass and spray painting a protective top coat, maybe a automotive primer, could make a sturdy enough desk piece, you could also make color transitions or add texture to the final work ...or casting as a paper weight?
to give your sculpture a solid bottom layer you could make a bit of a rim, pour in some normal black acrylic first, then the magnet paint. that should give you a disk for the spikes to sit on.
It seems you are not a big on cooking :) There are amazing silicone spatulas, with you could quickly and effectively scrape off the paint from any flat surface, or slightly curved even.
With the cracks in the base of the ferropaint, I'm thinking it'd be interesting to put some multicolor LEDS under it in a box/stand and then a glass cover.
Hi Brainiac! I came across some internet sources stating that 365 nm light can eliminate fungi and eradicate certain pathogens, such as bacteria. I find this information quite intriguing, considering that 365 nm falls within the UVA range, which is relatively weak. It would be great if you could create a video experimentally testing this phenomenon using a 365 nm black light. Thank you!
I think the paint looks great, I think it would be interesting to put a coil of very small LED on the plate and let the paint dry. Some light would be buried, but there might be some good light to accent the depth.
each one of your patreons will get their own plastic sheet with some dried up spikes. 10:57 thats wicked, and it incl. all tiers. Just make sure you package it well.
I like how you were able to get thin spikes. If you did it on a thin piece of silicone rubber mat or similar thin silicone rubber and poured regular acrylic black paint or black coloured uv resin around and worked it through the base of the sculpture you may be able to remove it ?
Mix starch, water and iron powder in a solution. Put a magnet and a subwoofer under the mixture. The agitation from the sound will create shapes and the magnet will organize the shapes
Since it's an acrylic paint, cleanup should be much easier if you play with it in a silicone or silicone coated container. Once it dries flexing the container should make it delaminate. My only concern is that maybe the iron particles would tear up the silicone coating.
When does the part 7 of Exotic Elements vs. Magnet coming? 😂 Is it possible to do a video with radioactive and really dangerous elements you have not already tried?
I think you might be able to fluidize the gritty magnetic pigment by vibrating the paint above the magnet. Have you any sort of vibrator to make the spacer board hum, while the spikes are forming? Some possibilities: An aquarium air pump, hair clippers, a saber saw (without blade), a small DC motor with an off center weight (like those that make a phone vibrate). Adding a thin foam layer between board and magnet would let the board vibrate more easily.
maybe its great for conducting heat or radiate heat too cooldown stuff ? black paint usually absorb a lot of heat but maybe that paint in specific don't ?
Hmm, maybe it could work. Or put it under a magnet where gravity could help pull the spikes a little longer? Thanks for the suggestion and watching my video, Kevin :)
I would like to see this as well but not for longer spikes but if more spikes in general will grow. I just think if you create a ton of spikes and blades the material will become more black from light absorption and probably make a good laser dump.
I've seen people recommending casting the sculpture in epoxy, but what about a magnetic epoxy-based fluid? If it spikes well it might be a great way to make sculptures
Could you wash some of the acrylic resin out with water IPA, while it's on a magnet adding something to break up the water tension and something like glycerol?
TLDR: electromagnet bluetooth speaker using diluted magnetic paint inside an airtight transparent housing. sorry for the novel ;D is there something you could add to the paint that, when kept in an air tight enviroment like a glass sphere (whole different problem), would keep it in a partially liquid state that could still move and form new spikes/return back to a blob lol when magnets arent pulling on it? maybe just water maybe? i dunno i saw this and thought it would be really cool to have this stuff inside something transparent and have the paint respond to music / electronic sound. like a weird spiky bluetooth speaker. i really dont know how to put into words accurately exactly what im picturing but hopefully you see where im going with this lol. rough idea is to use a microcontroller like an arduino to vary the power sent to an electromagnet based on the sound data from a song. on the coding side of things im pretty sure confident i could do it but ive never worked with the physical materials so building the enclosure/figuring out the composition of the material inside of it would be a challenge for me personally.
What would happen if you added some bismuth (diamagnetic) powder and mixed it up with the ferrofluids? Would it help loosen the iron , or just separate out?
What if you used the magnetite pigment and added linseed oil, stand oil and tung oil in the mix. Then mulled it to about the same as a medium bodied oil paint. Then put a bunch on a canvas and put a magnet under it, leave it be and let it dry over the course of a few months. 3D magnet oil painting?
I wonder if you can make a iron "shell" on parts by applying few layers of paint on plastic wrap. peeling it and burning away the acrylic resin, then sintering the iron particles.
"Don't let fire play with *you* !" //
"The cleanup really puts the pain in paint."
Love it! 🤣
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ideas : Start with some base layers of non-magnetic paint. Encapsulate the dried paint sculpture in clear resin.
great idea! i'd carefully airbrush them some cool metallic color before! the matte black makes details and crevices way hard to see. but those structures might be quite a challenge to encase bubble free, without a vacuum chamber.
My thoughts as well. Start by preparing a base of thickly layered acrylic, allowed to fully dry in advance. Add one more coat and allow it dry just briefly so you have a tacky surface to begin with. That way the ferro paint will adhere quite well to the acrylic base.
For resin, I think you could brush on numerous coats of clear acrylic to fill fine gaps and delicate texture, prior to encasing in resin.
I like the spikes of ferrofluid. But I also love the ridges in this paint. They form patterns that look like roses or carnations. To me, this paint is just as beautiful. I'm sorry you had a messy clean-up.
Thats soooo cool! :D
Maybe you could try to coat the Sculptures with a layer of UV resin or even put it in a block of clear resin! ^^
Must admit I did not expect it to be this close to ferripaste... What I really want the most, is to make it more glossy. It is a quite matte when dried. I guess high gloss UV resin would fix it? Thanks for the early watch and comment as always!
@@brainiac75 Orange LED Strip
Oops, I should have read all the comments before also sorry heating to cast it in resin. Haha
@@brainiac75 a quick search shows that UV resin is available in viscosity down to as thin as water. You could dip it then hit it with UV to create a protective shell. Depending on the formulation, maybe one of those would give the gloss finish?
@@brainiac75 i was also thinking about this iu think it would look cool to put it in a resen block and use a led base for display
13:59
Why did this part crack me up so much lmao
Guess we have the same sense of humour? I laughed way too hard at it myself x) It was just one of those long 10 hours editing days where the 'slide shows' at the end felt too serious and repetitive for me. Decided to break it up and entertain myself (and hopefully my viewers too) with that gimmick. Thanks for watching!
Probably someone already suggested this but you can cast it in a epoxy resin. It will be challenging but I'm sure in the end, you will have a relic from an ancient alien civilization.
Was about to say that lol.
Second this
If you could get the spikes/ridges small enough, this could be a Vantablack killer.
You mean "create a soupy mess"?
@@MadScientist267 What do you mean by that?
Yes - another video from Brian😊
12 years and no subscribers? Just changed that!
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Oh yes, and the longest one yet ;) Quite an effort on a winter fatigue... Thanks for the early watch and comment!
@nma794 You spelled it wrong. It's Brain. Last name appears to be Iac.
I think it'd be a great idea to experiment with a wide range of values for the parameters like distance, layer thickness (volume of the paint you're pouring) and water ratio.
I also think it'd be interesting to see if it can be airbrushed for example on scale model kits
Very nifty! Never seen magnetic paint before
Did not think the paint would work this well. I got carried away and made my longest video yet... For video, it is too matte though. Looks better in reality. I may need to invest in a camera with higher dynamic range and HDR capabilities :D Thanks for the early watch and comment!
@@brainiac75Putting a black fluid in a white container may have made the camera "stop down" to reduce the white, which starved the black for exposure. A deep blue or strong red background might show off the black better? (Is what I was thinking before I got to the Comments section. I hesitate to mention this to such a pro, though!) Thanks for the Art + Science today.
It makes me happy to see a new video from you
Very fascinating process! It's always enjoyable to follow along with a trial-and-error process, it scratches the inquisitive itch.
I must say, I really enjoy the visual interest of the blades that the paint formed (possibly more than the Ferro fluid spikes) as they all seemed to form into something truly unique every time. Very interesting!
The humour is improving, and your usual deadpan delivery makes it even better.
8:20 Ferrofluid has been around for over a decade and I just now learned it's flammable.
Thank you! Keep producing videos!
You're welcome! I have only been uploading videos for 14 years ;) Not even close to being ready to retire! And thanks for the early watch and comment.
I nearly posted this on your older video, but glad I continued the binge. For thinning duty, easy-access surfactants can be had under several everyday products. While ordinary dish soap works to a degree, what you're really after are tannins. Green tea has a relatively high concentration of tannins, though they're quite easy to buy in bulk as its own product. This is also the 'secret' ingredient that keeps clay particles in suspension if you've ever had a play with glazes.
Your carrier can be an effective solvent (can make recommendations depending on your locale; in the US, acetone and MEK substitutes like xylene are easy to acquire), IPA or even the universal solvent, distilled water. Basically the purer the better to avoid mineral contamination.
Ferrofluid works as it does as the ferromagnetic material is broken down to nanometer particle size, often in its carrier of choice during the same reducing process. You can add your mixture into a glass jar in an ultrasonic cleaner for a few cycles and enhance functionality, or if you have a sufficiently powerful blender for Science duty. It will need quite a lot of shearing time to get break down into the finest concentration (90 minutes would be my starting recommendation, but most blenders are not rated for that kind of duty cycle, even the commercial ones. I have a graveyard of sacrificial blenders including a 1500 watt commercial rig).
paint a wall with it and test the sound proofing properties of the spikes, due to the shape of them they should provide some pretty efficient sound proofing.
Keep going my man! Love your work
Maybe a new camera or lens for such colours/materials
Thanks. As long as you all watch and like my videos, I have no reason to stop. Much more to come!
yey i have waited for this for so long!!
Making a DIY Ferrofluid is so satisfying.
I guess that's the most fascinating paint you'll ever see.
It sure is the most entertaining paint, I've used ;) Thanks for the early comment and watch!
That stuff is amazing! I think I am actually inspired to art after years! Thanks s much! You could probably add other arcylic mediums, for different textures, or shapes. And would make more damage resistant structures, because I assume it is very fragile when dry.
Huh... would look very interesting to mix a some of that 'Black 3.0" acrylic paint (it's pretty much vantablack). Have yet to get that paint myself... ugh... Would make amazing depth or no depth! I can't imagine that space scenes I could create! wow!
Incredible
For the sculpture, using an electromagnet will make it easier to remove.
This stuff has its own value with its own unique shapes
Fed video Brian!!🫡❤️
This is genuinely interesting. What practical purpose would magnetic paint have for it to be commonly sold? Though, I'm surprised at how close it is to Ferripaste. Great video as always--and not what I expected. A follow-up to this would be quite interesting, to see what you'd do with the sculptures.
not sure if this is related, but a while back LTT made a video showcasing conducting paint for RF blocking purposes.
It's used for making magnet boards so you can hang things up with magnets like a fridge. You can also use it with chalkboard paint to make magnetic chalk boards.
please demonstrate an inductor coil's pattern of magnetism via various ferrofluids, thanks.
Good idea, though in my experience a bare magnet at some distance has the most interesting effect on ferrofluid. Will consider a video, where I use electromagnets, inductor coils etc. on ferrofluid. Should be possible to make some interesting patterns with a bit of creativity. Thanks for watching and the suggestion!
Oooh! For the sculpture, casting it within an acrylic block would look very cool!
Edit: looks like a few others had the same idea. Haha
The paint could be great for dioramas. Or some sort of tapletop map. Imagine you have a part of the map that belongs to a villain. If you made a bunch of those sculptures and squared them off, they could make great terrain pieces
What a nice magnetic flower you made there.
This is much better than regular ferrofluid because it's much more viscous and shows a much higher definition shape of what the magnetic field looks like.
Ferrofluid is kind of a one-trick fluid with the same pattern over and over. But what a trick it is ;) With that said, I found the magnetic paint to be much better than I expected. Just need to gloss it up for better visuals! Thanks for the early watch and comment as always, Aaron.
It would be neat to see a ferromagnetic sculpture in casting resin.
In my opinion, the blades and ridges of the earlier recipes look the best. They're really cool looking
6:18 It looks like an evil flower, beautiful
Hello new miniature scenery building technique. So many possibilities to try.
7:10 I think a rubber spatula (the one used for mixing bowls for home baking) would be better at scraping the magnet paint off the tub!
If you used a plastic box, put some of the paint inside above the magnet and allowed it to form the spikes then slowly and carefully flooded the box with clear resin I wonder if you could permanently encapsulate the spikes
Some ideas for you:
1. Explain how the levitron spinning top works.
2. Try different form of magnetic bearings - active and passive kinds
3. With small magnets the can lift themselves up in a glass dish with ferrofluid, can your larger magnet lift itself too? Is the high of lift Higher or lower and does the ratio to gauss to size matter?
4. If the large magnet can lift itself how much can it hold compared to the smaller magnets by pounds/kilo to gauss.
5. Can you get on the magnet and take a spin on ferrofluid?
now if you could get it to dry in formation on your wall. ❤ great video 2x👍
Painting a layer first without the magnet would solve the base being separate spikes.
Super glad you decided to stir it first lol
Something to try sometime. Mix iron powder into a slow curing resin, then let it harden in a strong magnetic field
Our clothes dryer recently died and I took it apart and found a good 300g of ultra fine iron dust inside. I immediately thought of this channel when I found it. The dryer had been grinding it’s parts for years.
hmm, using the paint on glass and spray painting a protective top coat, maybe a automotive primer, could make a sturdy enough desk piece, you could also make color transitions or add texture to the final work
...or casting as a paper weight?
A silicone spatula is really good for getting thin layers of residual liquid off of the bowl.
to give your sculpture a solid bottom layer you could make a bit of a rim, pour in some normal black acrylic first, then the magnet paint. that should give you a disk for the spikes to sit on.
I triple-dog-dare you to paint all your walls with this, braniac!
I actually thought the blade formations looked cooler than the spikes. Looked like some kind of flower from a Tim Burton movie.
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on a large scale maybe this could make very interesting looking sound absorbing panels
You could try Masking fluid. Its an artistic preservative used on water based art mediums.
It's fascinating how it almost looked plant like, flowering like petals
It seems you are not a big on cooking :) There are amazing silicone spatulas, with you could quickly and effectively scrape off the paint from any flat surface, or slightly curved even.
I build model kits and this would look really cool painted on a mecha model. I have to try that!
With the cracks in the base of the ferropaint, I'm thinking it'd be interesting to put some multicolor LEDS under it in a box/stand and then a glass cover.
Hi Brainiac!
I came across some internet sources stating that 365 nm light can eliminate fungi and eradicate certain pathogens, such as bacteria. I find this information quite intriguing, considering that 365 nm falls within the UVA range, which is relatively weak.
It would be great if you could create a video experimentally testing this phenomenon using a 365 nm black light.
Thank you!
I think the paint looks great, I think it would be interesting to put a coil of very small LED on the plate and let the paint dry. Some light would be buried, but there might be some good light to accent the depth.
13:59 the fact this is part of the video makes this video even more entertaining 🤣
oh man my head is full of ideas, you could make miniatures cover them with the paint and then use magnet to give them a texture.
Excellent!
could look dope if you put the dried spikes in resin an added underlights a unick light feature
each one of your patreons will get their own plastic sheet with some dried up spikes. 10:57
thats wicked, and it incl. all tiers.
Just make sure you package it well.
You should definitely sink a (much smaller) sculpture into a half dome of crystal resin, so the resin would act as a lens, magnifying it.
You could set it in a block of clear resin for a mantelpiece sculpture
I like how you were able to get thin spikes. If you did it on a thin piece of silicone rubber mat or similar thin silicone rubber and poured regular acrylic black paint or black coloured uv resin around and worked it through the base of the sculpture you may be able to remove it ?
Mix starch, water and iron powder in a solution. Put a magnet and a subwoofer under the mixture. The agitation from the sound will create shapes and the magnet will organize the shapes
Since it's an acrylic paint, cleanup should be much easier if you play with it in a silicone or silicone coated container. Once it dries flexing the container should make it delaminate. My only concern is that maybe the iron particles would tear up the silicone coating.
When does the part 7 of Exotic Elements vs. Magnet coming? 😂
Is it possible to do a video with radioactive and really dangerous elements you have not already tried?
I think you might be able to fluidize the gritty magnetic pigment by vibrating the paint above the magnet. Have you any sort of vibrator to make the spacer board hum, while the spikes are forming? Some possibilities: An aquarium air pump, hair clippers, a saber saw (without blade), a small DC motor with an off center weight (like those that make a phone vibrate). Adding a thin foam layer between board and magnet would let the board vibrate more easily.
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4:50 😳 wow, and that's one of your smaller magnets.
maybe its great for conducting heat or radiate heat too cooldown stuff ? black paint usually absorb a lot of heat but maybe that paint in specific don't ?
Noice! Maybe you could buy clear two part epoxy and mix in black iron oxide, you might get a similar result but way more sturdy.
That is very cool
Mix a bit of vanta black tint into it and make up the ultimate walls for a laser dump.
I love your videos.
Drizzel a small amount of clear epoxy resin with a syringe on the base of the spikes to hold everything together.
This would make epic dnd battlefields
you could flow some more paint in the base to connect the spikes
You should add a colorshifting interference pigment to it.
Check for fire resistance, seemed it could dissipate the heat well
I wonder if you could "bake" it. It might be difficult to smelt it perfectly, but if you could smelt the particles together, that would be awesome!
Try putting multiple layers onto it. Dry after every application. Maybe you can get longer spikes.
Hmm, maybe it could work. Or put it under a magnet where gravity could help pull the spikes a little longer? Thanks for the suggestion and watching my video, Kevin :)
@@brainiac75 I've been watching for years. Keep up your cool experiments. I'm happy to maybe help you. Ty.
I would like to see this as well but not for longer spikes but if more spikes in general will grow. I just think if you create a ton of spikes and blades the material will become more black from light absorption and probably make a good laser dump.
I've seen people recommending casting the sculpture in epoxy, but what about a magnetic epoxy-based fluid? If it spikes well it might be a great way to make sculptures
Could you wash some of the acrylic resin out with water IPA, while it's on a magnet adding something to break up the water tension and something like glycerol?
Nice pair of B&W speakers, are these the 601 line? I have the original model, looks like you have 601 s2 maybe, they do soind awesome though :)
I would take the dried spikes and then encapsulate them in resin
TLDR: electromagnet bluetooth speaker using diluted magnetic paint inside an airtight transparent housing. sorry for the novel ;D
is there something you could add to the paint that, when kept in an air tight enviroment like a glass sphere (whole different problem), would keep it in a partially liquid state that could still move and form new spikes/return back to a blob lol when magnets arent pulling on it? maybe just water maybe? i dunno i saw this and thought it would be really cool to have this stuff inside something transparent and have the paint respond to music / electronic sound. like a weird spiky bluetooth speaker. i really dont know how to put into words accurately exactly what im picturing but hopefully you see where im going with this lol. rough idea is to use a microcontroller like an arduino to vary the power sent to an electromagnet based on the sound data from a song. on the coding side of things im pretty sure confident i could do it but ive never worked with the physical materials so building the enclosure/figuring out the composition of the material inside of it would be a challenge for me personally.
The wargaming community seeing you can add ferropaint spikes from Hell to the mini bases and boards: "Write that down!!!"
How about spraying it with lacquer and then using it as a magnetic sound wall?
It is even more spectacular than the actual ferrofluid.
What would happen if you added some bismuth (diamagnetic) powder and mixed it up with the ferrofluids?
Would it help loosen the iron , or just separate out?
I wanna see spikes in different colors and how it would be done.
What if you used the magnetite pigment and added linseed oil, stand oil and tung oil in the mix. Then mulled it to about the same as a medium bodied oil paint. Then put a bunch on a canvas and put a magnet under it, leave it be and let it dry over the course of a few months. 3D magnet oil painting?
I wonder if you could do something with two magnets on either side of the paint?
I wonder if you can make a iron "shell" on parts by applying few layers of paint on plastic wrap. peeling it and burning away the acrylic resin, then sintering the iron particles.
If sturdy enough, encasing it in a thick block of resin to make a paper weight or similar?
Could you use those silicone moulding kits on these? Then create a cast from them?
Enclosing the "artwork" in epoxy resin seems like it would add durability.
Never thought I'd say, watching paint dry was interesting! 🤣