Tetromino fluids

This page contains additional visualizations and computer animations that didn't make it into our first paper on structure and thermodynamics in tetromino fluids; the abstract is available here, and the complete paper (open-access, so anyone can download it) here.

This work was also written up on ScienceDaily and Ars Technica!

Simulation snapshots

• Snapshots of some of the 21 binary mixtures at high density.
  
  
• Snapshots of some ternary (three-component) mixtures at both medium and high densities.
  
  
• Snapshots of some many-component mixtures at high densities.
  
  

Animations

• Representative configurations at increasing pressures, in pure fluids (61 frames, at 1 fps)
  • Squares
  • Rods
  • S shapes
  • Z shapes
  • J shapes
  • L shapes
  • T shapes
• Representative configurations at increasing pressures, in selected mixtures (61 frames, at 1 fps)
  • S/Z mixture
  • Rod/Z/L mixture
  • S/Z/J/T mixture
  • Square/Rod/Z/J/T mixture
  • Rod/S/Z/J/L/T mixture
  • Square/Rod/S/Z/J/L/T mixture
• "Dynamics" - the evolution of a system at equilibrium. See the original paper for details of how the simulation is done.
  • Square/Rod/S mixture
    (200 frames, taken 100,000 Monte Carlo trials apart. 5 MB)
  • Dense rod fluid
    (350 frames, taken 10,000 Monte Carlo trials apart. 5 MB. Note the slow, diffusive dynamics of the long 'lines' of rods.)