This room temperature experiment, recorded with crossed polarizers and with a few large inert markers in the sample shows dynamic recrystallization in a sample where the initial grainsize happens to be the same as the dynamically recrystallized one. From the onset of deformation grain boundaries start migrating, but relatively slowly with respect to the rate of deformation (compare for example with the camphor movies presented earlier in this paper). After a large amount of deformation the grainsize has decreased somewhat but not dramatically. In triple junctions, grain boundaries meet at approximately 120 degrees during the experiment, indicating the local role of grain boundary energy driven grain boundary migration.

This experiment was run at about 60 degrees C. Here the grains undergo strong grainsize increase during deformation, and a strong crystallographic preferred orientation develops. For most of the experiment the sample has a reasonable foam texture, and most still pictures exported from this movie would be interpreted as due to static recrystallization. The process of grain growth is partly the same as during static recrystallization where grains with less than six sides shrink and eventually disappear, and partly due to massive coalescence of grains with the same orientation. At the end of the experiment the sample is very coarse grained, with a strong crystallographic preferred orientation.

Note that the movie was recorded off the center line of the sample and shows material flowing through the field of view for this reason. The "jerky" movement in the first part of the experiment is due to an unstable camera, and is not related to changes in deformation rate.