Sloshing Tank

How it's made

Source

water rolls into alternating walls after a vessel is moved; filtered pink turbulence swells over 70-140 ms, with softer return surges rather than sharp impact transients.

Body

enclosed air and water-loaded walls colour the flow at 150-370 Hz and 1.8/3.1 times that band; low-Q resonances and a 0.7-2.2 kHz low-pass keep the vessel hollow, damped and muffled.

Layers

broad fluid friction underlies the cavity bands; trapped 3.8-8 mm bubbles add brief rising 400-860 Hz gurgles around the wall arrivals, softened by the same enclosure filtering.

Envelope

four irregular surges start near 0, 0.44, 0.90 and 1.34 s; each loses energy and settles over 0.38-0.53 s. A final 140 ms fade ends the action before 2 s, with no external reverberation.

Variation

seeded timing, noise, bubble radii and cavity detuning vary each move. Size changes the cavity; fill reduces air and bubbling; motion changes return strength; muffling controls wall loss.

Presets

small canister has higher gurgles; deep tank has low broad surges; nearly full is muted and restrained; vigorous shake has stronger returns, aeration and wider spectral movement.

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