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28 Jun 2024 03:10:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange attractors  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 10 Dec 2009 04:27:43
Message: <4b20bf0f$1@news.povray.org>
"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4b1ff4dde6b3a3e086ff1d480@news.povray.org...
> Something I found really exciting and fascinating was seeing a real-life
> attractor a couple of months later, one I thought I recognized from my
> experiments! It was early June, 2007, nearing sunset here on the east 
> coast of
> Florida and the space shuttle had launched about 15 miles from my home. 
> Some
> weird chaotic upper air currents were doing an attractor dance up there 
> and the
> smoke trail left by the shuttle showed the pattern. I grabbed my camera 
> and took
> a few shots for posterity. Here's the attractor saved by my app preview 
> and the
> similar real-life version:
>

Incredible! This is a fantastic experience.

Thomas


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