Orchid XP v2 spake:

> Since everybody is so captivated by this [not!], I'm going to just come
> out with it now.
> 
> You remember the chaos pendulum? A metal weight suspended over three
> magnets. A while back I make a simulation of its path.
> 
> Well, this is 102,400 chaos pendulums, all running in parallel, but each
> one started from a different initial pixel location. And each pixel is
> coloured according to how close its pendulum currently is to each of the
> three magnets. (The magnets are red, green and blue.) If you watch the
> animation, it appears to "pulsate" due to the typical swing period of
> the pendulum.
> 
> In this simulation, there is no gravity, no dissapation, and the magnets
> produce linear forces. I plan to try quadratic forces next, and maybe
> add some gravity. I'm expecting to find quadratic force makes the
> patterns a lot more complex...
> 
> BTW, I have done animations with other colourings. Best of all was a
> sky-like agate pattern that morphs to the swing. But it keeps crashing
> POV-Ray. :'{

Ouch - no wonder I was totally wrong. Never heard of a chaos pendulum - some
kind of classical experiment or device in physics?

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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