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Putting the tube in the handle seems like a great design! Has anyone hit on that before? (Happy New Year everyone)
Isn't that how toilets work?
From the article:

> "The pipe acts as a siphon much as the plumbing does in a modern toilet."

Nice.

Two phase flow is a difficult subject, so much so the owner of a nuclear engineering consultancy I worked for wrote his magnum opus on it: Two-Phase Flow in Complex Systems It's imperative to get right in process environments like chemical production facilities and nuclear reactors. https://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-04713296...

How is this relevant? Pouring liquid into a Pythagorean cup does not lead to two-phase flow?!
I just modelled a 3d-printable version of the "tube hidden inside handle" design: http://incoherency.co.uk/interest/pythagoreancup.stl

It's not printed yet, but apart from the excessive overhang at the top of the handle I think it will work.

Side view at 50% opacity: https://img.jes.xxx/2003

The problem with this design is that you can only drink from the cup with the handle facing away from you.
The handle at a right angle but no closer is okay.
I think it can be slightly closer to you than that.

The cup is wider at the top than the bottom, which means when you tilt it over you are removing some liquid from a narrow part of the cup and adding an equal volume of liquid to a wide part of the cup. That means the level drops slightly.

I’d make sure the tube is pretty wide. I made one and it wasn’t very impressive to wait 30 seconds while the water trickled out. Just seems like a leaky cup.

I’d go more for a toilet flush type of thing if I redid it.

You're right :)

It finished printing and works as it should, but it takes an extremely long time to drain.

tobr suggested an alternative design elsewhere in this thread: https://i.postimg.cc/FR7Qc9M5/0845194-D-F5-DE-46-D6-8200-CB9... - I think it would be easier to conceal a larger tube within that, so I might have to try that too.

Could you share the file with me if you end up doing that other design? I’d love to try it out too.
Here you go: https://incoherency.co.uk/interest/pythagoreancup2.stl

And a 50% opacity view: https://img.jes.xxx/2005

The first cup took 90 seconds to drain about 200ml. The cross-sectional area of the tube in the second version is about 4.7x larger, so if my beginner-level understanding of Bernoulli's principle is accurate, I expect it to drain about 4.7x faster, so maybe it'll empty itself in 20 seconds instead of 90.

This one drains in 12 seconds, but only contains 150ml due to the reduction of the inner diameter at the bottom.

The average flow rate is 12.5 ml/sec vs 2.2 ml/sec before, so it's 5.6x better!

I have one.

In my washing machine (LG) rinsing slot...

I know, because I always have to be very careful not to overfill it. But usually there is some leftower water in its pipe so it does not keep the fluid even if I not overfill - so nowadays I routinely take it apart and shake it dry before each washing - clever but not to convenient...

My grandpa had a similar contraption; a "puzzle jug" -- he'd fill it with wine, drink some, and pass it around to his guests -- who would often tip the jug and spill. Amusingly, potheads are more likely to succeed than the general population, because it's just a carburetor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_jug