Lavalamp

Now hear me out here, what if a lava lamp was actually a volcano shaped lamp with moulded/cut day-glow plastic formed into a lava flow.

An alternative lavalamp

Natures hot sauce

I created a couple of lava materials ages ago with various levels of cooling and I’ve been meaning to have a play with the fluid simulator as it’s not something I’ve used often, so this was an opportunity to mix something old and new.

I used my Hot and Cooling lava materials and combined them with a mix node controlled with iframes to mix over time.

Fluid wise I started with the Honey pre-set values and tweaked them over several iterations to increase viscosity, smooth or roughen the surface, I also changed the scaling of the materials pattern.