My thoughts on the craft, the process and the subjects
This is the top of page 10 of my fluids manga. As I was writing the script, I learned a neat way of extracting temporal data from a single still representation of the fluid flow. This is the set-up for the explanation of how it works.
These are the inks of the last two panels on page 9 of the fluids comic book. Here, Ariadne points out the first definitive inconsistency in the “La Source” painting.
Here are the inks of the first three panels of page 9 of my fluids manga book. This is a calculation of the axis-switching wavelength of a water jet according to the modern model. In fact, as it’s explained here, a simplified model of the phenomenon already existed when “La Source” was painted, but the painting doesn’t agree with it.
The last panel of my comic book on fluid mechanics. This is where we start to see that with some mathematical analysis it will be possible to quantify the degree of realism (or lack thereof) in the depiction of fluid motion in (neo)classical paintings.
This is the ink of the second panel of page 8 of my fluid mechanics manga. I’ve decided to show the fluid physics material the way I present it in my own teaching videos. The idea is that a character is writing on a tablet, and the equations appear on the screen. This is the way it actually happened in my online lectures.
Here is the inked first panel on page 8 of my fluids manga. This is the point of the story where it becomes clear that some quantitative analysis of the depicted fluids phenomenon (the water jet pouring from the pitcher) is possible.
This is the ink of the last panel on page 7 of the comic book I’ve been putting together. Here, we start dissecting what is and is not realistic in the “La Source” painting from the fluid mechanics standpoint.
This is the ink of the third panel of page 7 of my manga book on fluids. While researching the story, I found some interesting info on how detectives actually measure objects in photos, where no obvious reference length is shown. The size of a human iris, apparently, is a fairly constant reference. Here, one of the main characters, Ariadne, explains this.
This is the ink of the first two panels of page 7 of my fluids comic book. I needed to establish a system for measuring the reference lengths in the painting, so I had to do some research about how this could be done. The model of “La Source” is actually a known person, so her anatomy is an obvious reference. Nothing is known about her height or other measurements, though, as Ariadne and Athena discuss in these panels.
Here are the inks of the rest of the 6th page of my fluids comic book. This is how I decided to show the scientific content. I used my own presentation style from the COVID times, when I taught fluid mechanics online by writing on the screen, overlaying formulae and schematics with images.