We use 3D printing to fabricate anisotropic particles in the shapes of jacks, crosses, tetrads, and triads, whose alignments and rotations in turbulent fluid flow can be measured from multiple simultaneous video images.
Cole, B. C., Marcus, G. G., Parsa, S., Kramel, S., Ni, R., Voth, G. A. Methods for Measuring the Orientation and Rotation Rate of 3D-printed Particles in Turbulence. J. Vis. Exp. (112), e53599, doi:10.3791/53599 (2016).