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21 Jun 2024 16:13:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Rheotomic Surfaces  
From: posfan12
Date: 27 Aug 2013 20:30:00
Message: <web.521d43a1329ee2141a177270@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> The lines in the grid look like gravitational distortions of space-time.
> I'm wondering if the equations are similar to satellites and black holes.
> especially those lines where they curve in, and then curve out again, near the
> "empty" spaces.
> Follow a line from the edge and picture a falling object getting pulled into
> orbit around an initally closer gravity well, then getting grabbed by another
> one and sucked into that...
>
> You might want to hit up some people on the math forums - mathematica, etc.
> Real whiz-kids on there...

Yes, it looks like it's based on the formula for gravitational fields (or maybe
electrical fields). I think the pictures are very pretty.


Mike


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