Who are you calling a drip?

I love this little sequence, it shows what happens when you look a little deeper at something which seems obvious and commonplace. This film captures a mundane event that happens a billion times a day, i.e. what happens to a drop of water splashing into a larger body of water, like a rain drop falling into a puddle. Our perspective is altered because the camera was whizzing along at 2000 frames per second, and captured the effects of surface tension and mechanical forces acting at the air-water boundary between the drop and the surface. The net result is water drops that bounce, get partially absorbed and form new drops that bounce again, getting ever smaller until they are completely absorbed.

I'll never look at my shower the same way now :)