bottom plates have isopropyl alcohol, glycerine, printer ink and clear mineral oil. Top plates have coloured oil and a complementary water colour. Adding vinegar and alcohol on the top plate gives the turbulence that you see occasionally. I am using two sets of plates as described, and assigning colours to each layer so they will overlap to produce secondary colours, and further overlap in the computer when I combine video feeds from both plates. I reduce the light levels where the hotspots in both layers overlap, but otherwise no digital manipulation. The colours all come from real world dyes and inks.

@@theliquidcrystaldisplay thank you

what does your filming set up look like? Do you use a tripod or light table?

@@brigettenicklas for this I'm using overhead projectors with the liquids plates sitting on the stage but I'm filming them directly, not the projection. 2:1 macro lens

You take the glass dome from a clock and put mineral oil, isopropyl alcohol, a bit of water, maybe some glycerine in it, and a water soluble dye. I use printer ink. Then you put another clock dome on top of the liquids and squash them together. Project with an overhead projector or film it directly using an LED pad for backlighting, as I did here, or another light source.

​@@theliquidcrystaldisplay Oh baby! Sounds like the magic comes from playing with how those materials interact with each other, as well as the light passing through them...definitely has me inspired. Thank you for the insight into your process!

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Thanks! It's printer ink and candle dye, diluted with isopropyl alcohol, acetone and petroleum ether. The oil-soluble liquids don't mix with the water-soluble ones, so when the projector bulb heats them up, they bubble and pop but the colours stay separate.

@@theliquidcrystaldisplay very cool.