Is it possible to animate a drawing with just water? Look!

by Shirley Marie Bradby

January 29, 2017

Is it possible to animate a drawing with just water? Look!
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Many of you will watch this video clip more than once to try to unearth the secret. In reality, there is no trick or fakery going on!

What you see is only the magical animated effect produced by the contact between water and the ink from a marker used to write on magnetic boards.

What makes this trick possible is the insolubility of this type of ink in water, and the fact that the neither the water nor the ink is absorbed by the underlying surface. That's how this very special effect has been created!

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