POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : --- : Re: Harmonograph simulation Server Time
29 Apr 2024 03:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Harmonograph simulation  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 10 Oct 2016 10:20:00
Message: <web.57fba2633023a69ab488d9aa0@news.povray.org>
AQ <AQ### [at] worldcom> wrote:

> You have a lot of parameters to play with there.
> I simplified the code a bit so I could try to understand it and changed the
colouring again for simplicity. It needs 
to be simple for me to understand
> it.

It does seem like a lot of parameters at first, but it's not really a lot to
understand.

2 pendulums, each has amplitude, frequency, phase, and dampening.
each one has a second "wiggle" to it - thus there are four sets of 4 parameters.
I didn't even apply the first equation again to simulate the moving paper as
suggested in the Wikipedia article!  :)  :O

> I had not seen those macros before.  I will have to have a look at them later.

I discovered them after trying to follow some of the discussions about different
color spaces, and finally tracked down a thread where their location was
disclosed.
Now that I know that they're there, I find I play with them quite a bit for
scenes requiring lots of color changes.

Thanks for you initial image post - it's still quite inspiring!

> AQ


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