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28 Jun 2024 02:47:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Strange attractors  
From: CShake
Date: 13 Dec 2009 01:09:53
Message: <4b248531$1@news.povray.org>
Robert McGregor wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 
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> 
That looks great! I wonder if it's possible to render something similar 
to the clouds/smoke, instead of just a lot of spheres...


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