Plateau’s Laws

I have recently been looking into some principles of physics known as “Plateau’s Laws”. These laws were introduced by Belgian physicist “Joseph Plateau”. These laws state the following:-

• Three bubbles intersecting must always do so at angles of 120 degrees. These are known as “Plateau Borders”.


• Each Plateau border intersects in fours at one point at approximately 109.47 degrees.


• Soap film surfaces are entirely smooth.


• The mean curvature of the soap film is constant on every part of the film.

I also found a blog on WordPress called “WeWantToLearn.net” which has an article discussing these laws and applying them within a program called “Grasshopper”. This is a graphical algorithm editor integrated inside another 3D program called “Rhino 3D”.