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Series of single picture as examples of filament breakage types. (a) Breakage in the middle of a stretched filament. (b) Breakage at the tip of a filament loop. (c) Breakage at the position where formerly a tip of a loop was located. Arrows indicate direction of filament movement. Filaments were redrawn manually from movie images. Corresponding movies can be found in the supplementary material
