Honestly, I’ve been really enjoying making these, probably the most I’ve been excited to model something for months. So I exchanged some sleep for a faster turnaround :) Previous post here...
So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....
If you wanted to communicate how a proposed intersection or roadway redesign would look and feel to the public, what would you use?
I'm looking specifically for examples of tools that are fairly easy to use by non-experts and can create realistic renderings suitable for #public engagement.
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Does a chaotic system always behave chaotically?
Not really, as many chaotic systems have a subset of possible initial conditions that lead to a quasi-periodic motion.
As an example, below are two sets (black and orange) of 20 double pendula each, all with the same initial energy, and each group starting with very similar initial conditions.
The first group (black) spread out a little bit with time, but nearby initial conditions keeps evolving into nearby dynamics, which is typical of integrable systems.
On the other hand the pendula in the second group (orange) also starts with similar initial condition, but after a short transient evolve each very differently from each other, which is a mark of a chaotic system. #Physics#Visualization#Chaos
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A quantum simple pendulum.
The pendulum position is spread out, with opacity here being proportional to the probability that the pendulum is at that position at a given time. The average position of the quantum dynamics is the same as the classical pendulum dynamics (Ehrenfest theorem).
Technicalities: I used the Crank-Nicholson method to evolve the system in time. This is a 1D problem, and the only variable I considered was the angle, with the initial state being a Gaussian.
🌟 Exciting Updates for IEEE VIS 2024 🌟
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Calling all experts & enthusiasts in #visualization and related fields! Don't miss out on this hybrid event, bridging in-person & virtual experiences. More details 👇
Indian musician and vocal coach, Mr. AV Peace, employs a really creative method in his teaching. He draws out these intricate maps to help visualize notes and sounds. They’re quite mesmerizing.
The world is beautiful, science is beautiful, data is beautiful. Knowing that this monster is heading straight for me somehow makes it even more beautiful.
Markwhen is a text-to-timeline tool where you can write markdown-ish text and it gets converted into a nice looking cascading timeline or other type of visualization. Documentation and what all you can do with it is at https://docs.markwhen.com, and the main site is of course https://markwhen.com. It's pretty cool
✍️ New: The big list of academic #writing resources
A list of books, blogs and tools to hone your scientific writing. I've tried to cover the basics of academic writing, deeper dives on style and even data #visualization.
I’ve worked on a small tool to animate and record variable fonts. The Variable Font Animator – A drawing interface makes animating and testing variable fonts easy and fun. You can even record videos directly in your browser. There is no need to take a screen capture anymore. That way you can specify the final video format on the fly.
Why are there no #3d#visualization tools (for #python) that work like a #gamedev engine? I want to do more than rotate and zoom. I want to translate my rotation point. I want to walk around inside my #data. Let me explore parameter space directly.
If it doesn't already exist, maybe I'll have to make my own #fps style plotting tool.
I found some interesting trends today while working with the simplify function from #Sympy as part of an experimental project for @formak. A large portion of the time is spent in list comprehensions and calling simplify recursively, which seems to “confuse” the flame graph representation.
#PhysicsFactlet
Can shadows move faster than light?
Not really. There is nothing moving sideways, so nothing is moving faster than light (which, incidentally, mean you can't use shadows to communicate faster than light).
But the edges of the projection of the shadow can indeed appear to move arbitrarily fast. #ITeachPhysics#Visualization#Physics#Optics
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Magnetic hysteresis: In a ferromagnet the equilibrium configuration is with all magnetic moments aligned with each other. If we want to flip them, we need to flip all of them at the same time, which requires a stronger field than if the moments were independent, resulting in the characteristic hysteresis loop.
(Simulation done by numerically solve the Landau–Lifshitz equation with a tiny bit of noise added to speed the process up on a square grid of magnetic moment with periodic boundary conditions.)
OC I’m back with several more community icons: check out Artemis (future kbin app), Urban Details, 3D Modeling and some other stuff
Honestly, I’ve been really enjoying making these, probably the most I’ve been excited to model something for months. So I exchanged some sleep for a faster turnaround :) Previous post here...
OC I designed and rendered a couple of icons for the magazines I started, and I’d like to share some behind the scenes images with y'all. I’m also open to doing a few more of these in future.
So I 3D modelled two icons (well, illustrations rather) for the communities that I created on kbin: Industrial Design and Jewelry Design. These icons are meant to reimagine kbin’s logo in a way that's relevant to each community....
OC Experimenting with using shapes inspired by automotive design as a basis for jewelry pieces. This one’s a pendant.