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Four drops, drawn to scale

Four drops, drawn to scale
Four drops, drawn to scale. Meridians of a sessile drop on a perfectly non-wetting surface, integrated from Young–Laplace along the drop's own arc, with all four drawn at the same scale in capillary lengths. The smallest is a ball to four figures. The largest has stopped getting deeper altogether — every drop past a certain volume has the same thickness and simply spreads, and that thickness is 2ℓsin(θ/2) with no drop size in it anywhere.

Meridians of a sessile drop on a perfectly non-wetting surface, integrated from Young–Laplace along the drop's own arc, with all four drawn at the same scale in capillary lengths. The smallest is a ball to four figures. The largest has stopped getting deeper altogether — every drop past a certain volume has the same thickness and simply spreads, and that thickness is 2ℓsin(θ/2) with no drop size in it anywhere.

3 essays call drop-profile. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing drop-profile changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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