That might work on a simple straight pipe running in the open, but in the spaghetti junction of an oil refinery or a reactor container that often isn't practical.
There are undulating sand dunes, an old man's face that fades to an intricately carved handle, a spaghetti junction highway interchange and many more scenes showing patterns and mass movement.
Finance is a heavily regulated industry in which players compete to deliver a service over a spaghetti junction of legacy shared infrastructure that is unnecessarily expensive to operate.