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8 Aug 2024 08:17:26 EDT (-0400)
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From: EagleSun
Date: 10 Aug 2005 16:50:00
Message: <web.42fa678d176d3743841337530@news.povray.org>
Very interesting that you use POV-Ray for research, so it looks really
useful.  Very nice graphics to represent your data.

Orchid XP v2 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> 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...


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