Rome, Piazza del Popolo, the lions of the central fountain expectorate a turbulent water sheet. Random velocity fluctuations in the liquid nucleate holes which, driven by surface tension, grow and merge, leaving the sheet as a set of connected ligaments. These corrugated ligament further breakup into a collection of disjointed droplets broadly distributed in size.
There is not better, there is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of fragmentation than by considering the phenomena in a fountain (tribute to Michael Faraday).
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