pmoseman
Bluelighter
A splash is both visual and auditory. The shape is radial with the edges at once broken, scattered, and uneven while exhibiting bi-folded symmetry, radial symmetry, smooth transitions, and uniform clumping. The shape is expanding so the clumping is limited and this shape accelerates vertically and travels outward. Often the shape is more vertical or more horizontal, approaching the splosh or splish, respectively.
Either may be viewed as a failed splash. Each tell us something about what shape, speed, and orientation some object had entered the water.
The sound of a splash comes as a solid object enters a liquid and is what naturally follows as the liquid returns to the larger body of liquid, or wetted surroundings.
The sounds that dominate a splish are a slapping sound, which is the sharp escape and collapse of air, akin to thunder, or sharp pop, and also a sprinkling like rain. The drops are less clumped producing a lighter multitude of sounds that crescendo, rapidly following impact.
The splosh is dominated by the gurgling return of air to the surface through the water (bubbles) and to a lesser extent the slap that precludes the other sounds and a drawn out slap replacing the sprinkle.
All these sounds are presented nicely together in the splash. Forming a familiar interplay of expectant interchanges.
Splish is a relative of the splash. This results in a solid skipping over the surface. The sound is much more sprinkling without the gurgle of air going between the folds of water.
The shape of a splish is a half-splash, elongated in a direction perpendicular to the surface from which it emanated.
In both these instances, whether the liquid (typically water) is penetrated deep or shallow, immediately follows the water sprinkling back onto a surface in dots.
The splosh can be visualized as the cavity formed in the water and the natural return of liquid back into the cavity, often lifting out of the surface in a dense splash. The cavity is often hemi-ellipsoidal (spherical being a special case of elliptical) as if the emptiness were a ball sitting on the surface.
As that ball is removed, or as energy dissipates from the strike, the liquid accelerates upward and inward to fill the void, it travels beyond the surface forming a spire. Spitting into the air, often times, a single sphere of liquid from its center, which travels vertically up and then directly returning back down, or a number of spheres, reaching different heights, coming assist and back down together.
Particularly vertical splashes, which fail to break apart due to cohesion also form the splosh. The splosh sound is a single gutteral gloop sound. Like a splash happening all at once, or a drawn out slap without the sharp noise.
All of these activities form ripples silently moving across the surface, with the splosh being at the origin. These waves radiate slowly, often meeting with the sprinkles that follow a curved path above the surface.
The splosh sound resembles the sound of another liquid or spheroidal solid which smoothly enters the water without making a splash or necessarily gurgling. Passing liquid between dinner glasses. Perhaps there is a small gurgle as the sounds of bubbles return to the surface, reminiscent of a clogged drain. A clogged drain, which produces an echoing effect.
Either may be viewed as a failed splash. Each tell us something about what shape, speed, and orientation some object had entered the water.
The sound of a splash comes as a solid object enters a liquid and is what naturally follows as the liquid returns to the larger body of liquid, or wetted surroundings.
The sounds that dominate a splish are a slapping sound, which is the sharp escape and collapse of air, akin to thunder, or sharp pop, and also a sprinkling like rain. The drops are less clumped producing a lighter multitude of sounds that crescendo, rapidly following impact.
The splosh is dominated by the gurgling return of air to the surface through the water (bubbles) and to a lesser extent the slap that precludes the other sounds and a drawn out slap replacing the sprinkle.
All these sounds are presented nicely together in the splash. Forming a familiar interplay of expectant interchanges.
Splish is a relative of the splash. This results in a solid skipping over the surface. The sound is much more sprinkling without the gurgle of air going between the folds of water.
The shape of a splish is a half-splash, elongated in a direction perpendicular to the surface from which it emanated.
In both these instances, whether the liquid (typically water) is penetrated deep or shallow, immediately follows the water sprinkling back onto a surface in dots.
The splosh can be visualized as the cavity formed in the water and the natural return of liquid back into the cavity, often lifting out of the surface in a dense splash. The cavity is often hemi-ellipsoidal (spherical being a special case of elliptical) as if the emptiness were a ball sitting on the surface.
As that ball is removed, or as energy dissipates from the strike, the liquid accelerates upward and inward to fill the void, it travels beyond the surface forming a spire. Spitting into the air, often times, a single sphere of liquid from its center, which travels vertically up and then directly returning back down, or a number of spheres, reaching different heights, coming assist and back down together.
Particularly vertical splashes, which fail to break apart due to cohesion also form the splosh. The splosh sound is a single gutteral gloop sound. Like a splash happening all at once, or a drawn out slap without the sharp noise.
All of these activities form ripples silently moving across the surface, with the splosh being at the origin. These waves radiate slowly, often meeting with the sprinkles that follow a curved path above the surface.
The splosh sound resembles the sound of another liquid or spheroidal solid which smoothly enters the water without making a splash or necessarily gurgling. Passing liquid between dinner glasses. Perhaps there is a small gurgle as the sounds of bubbles return to the surface, reminiscent of a clogged drain. A clogged drain, which produces an echoing effect.
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