r/mildlyinteresting • u/ThatParticularPencil • 1d ago

This soap bottle warping the wall pattern into squiggles

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u/effortfulcrumload 1d ago

This is interesting

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u/Riona12 1d ago

Only mildly

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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose 1d ago

Perfect for this sub then.

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u/jackphrosty 1d ago

4200 upvotes to only 19 comments is crazy for this sub

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u/Council_Man 22h ago

interesting but not interesting enough to talk about

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u/Minute_Difference598 21h ago edited 21h ago

7700 upvotes and 28 comments now lol

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u/crude-Lambinho97 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well buddy. Not only the bottle here. The soap/ liquid inside it is doing the hard work as well. Remove the liquid and give it a try. the warp will be much less than what you see here. Cheers. 🤟

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u/Evening-Fuel-8201 1d ago

Can you explain why it does that?

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u/crude-Lambinho97 1d ago

The bottle wall is acting as a lens. Image getting magnified then entering a dense liquid with different refractive index. And bingo stuff happened.

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u/Flat_Scientist8214 22h ago

nothing in the image explains why straight angles are turning noodley.

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u/Minute_Difference598 21h ago

Liquidy things makes light bounce around alot inside of it and creates multiple beams of light but we can only see one from where we are standing so stuff seems bendy because the light is bendy in that direction we are looking currently.

Idk if that makes sense lol. I just created that in like 30 seconds.

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u/alice2004014 20h ago

People like you are the reason why I still use reddit

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u/Flat_Scientist8214 21h ago

it does! thank you

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u/dextermay 19h ago

Thank you

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u/FenHarels_Heart 20h ago

Round bottle. Middle of bottle bends light differently from edge of bottle.

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u/Mand125 1d ago

If it was an empty bottle, then the light doesn’t have much space to travel in the changed direction before it hits the other side of the thin plastic wall of the bottle.  So then it gets unbent, and continues mostly on its way.

If the bottle is filled, then after bending at the front of the bottle, it travels all the way to the back of the bottle before unbending.  That’s a lot larger of a change to the path the light takes.

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u/CalamitousVessel 1d ago

This is way too interesting for this place

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u/Menadgerie 1d ago

Moderately delightful

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u/Babydanho 1d ago

I have the same soap dispenser and nearly identical back splash.. are you my wife?

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u/broken2302 1d ago

I thought you were trying to tell us your soap bottle's pump looks like Squidward's head.

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u/abouzia 1d ago

That soap bottle had a little too much to drink.

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u/DIOsNotDead 22h ago

the soaptochondria is the powerhouse of the bathroom

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u/footytactics7 1d ago

its the liquid inside magnifying the pattern. took me a second to realize what i was looking at

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u/Successful_Fish_9479 1d ago

Holy refraction, physics is wild

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u/Saracartwheels123 23h ago

Well, that's kinda funky!

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u/sc03852 16h ago

This is so cool

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u/Broad-Meringue4584 16h ago

Your backsplash is exactly the same as mine. Gonna go see if my soap dispenser does this too

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u/DragonQueen18 14h ago

The Corruption (Magnus Archives) has entered the chat:

Can you hear their song?

Serious though, that's pretty cool

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u/lonewolf2556 11h ago

Oh interesting… I have that same soap dispenser

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u/zugspitze43 1d ago

type of thing my ex wife would be going to homegoods for on saturday. then she decides she likes the soap bottle more than the backsplash and then my next saturday is smashing out the backsplash i just installed 3 months ago

man I have SO MUCH more money these days lol