Shades of 1972! A ferrofluid art device made a big splash at the SIGGRAPH
national meeting. If I recall, this was a cover story in Pop. Science mag
back 30 years ago. (Sheesh, I'm OLD.) :)
Anyway, I notice that Carolina Bio has some of the "strong" variety of FF
for fairly cheap, $25/50ml, "strong" meaning the kind that makes spikes.