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Many of the processes illustrated here are hard or impossible to see in experiments because they are too small or occur too fast. This is why computer simulations are useful in that they can reveal details about dynamical processes that we cannot observe.

Water is present in ALL simulations but is invisible for clarity. Also, the movies are typically between a few hundred nanoseconds to a few microseconds long, but an exact time-scale is hard to measure. It takes about a week of computer time on a single processor to generate each movie.

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