LOL! Yes that's a highly stylised interpretation of some CFD results as painted onto a model. It's what you would *want* it to look like...
I was disappointed to see that pressure sensitive paint only works in monochrome. You have to shine a fancy light at the model whilst in the wind tunnel and then measure the light intensity reflected back from it. The paint absorbs light in different amounts depending on the pressure exterted upon it so you end up with a kind of black & white version of those pictures above, only with real results!
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