Category: Physics
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Ensemble #2
This is more of what I was thinking of when I started down this route. These are ensembles of particle paths in a chaotic dynamical system. Not only are these ensemble pictures beautiful, but they highlight some interesting mathematics and physics. But what I’ve really been after is a better source of semi regular noise.…
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Ensemble #1
I’m continuing with the envelope series, this time with an ensemble of states of a damped driven pendulum. One of the “classic” chaotic systems. This one isn’t in a chaotic regime, but striking none the less. Related Images:
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More envelopes
This time I’m not taking up all of the screen. Still working with polynomials and trigonometric functions. Related Images:
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sine waves and envelopes
Still just playing with more effects. This is a bunch of sine waves layered up to create an envelope effect. Related Images:
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Rough and Random page
I’ve had this sitting on my computer for a while and thought I’d publish it rather then just leave it sitting there. This simulates a pulse of light expanding out like my compression wave examples. This time however, we are looking at a pulse of light expanding in the vicinity of a black hole. Rather…
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I never knew it looked like that
These are all images of the same electron orbital. The doughnut or torus shows the electron rotating around the central point in the orbital plane. In the standard terminology this has principal quantum number 2, which represents the energy level of the electron. The azimuthal quantum number is 1. This represents how much of…
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Release often
The atomic orbital viewer is now on it’s third release. The first one was just the basic blurry transparent renderer, using just the rotating basis from the standard derivation from undergraduate physics classes. The second release added an option to view standing wave functions instead of the rotating as the standing wave functions are the…
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Static images
I’ve added static images of the atomic orbitals from the app. http://curvatureofthemind.com/images/atomic/ Related Images:
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Electron sausages?
I just paused writing an article where I tried to give a quick overview of quantum mechanics. Ha Ha It ended up being a few paragraphs, a few images, and a crap load of links to Wikipedia. I’m not going to write anything like that anytime soon, and definitely not in a single blog post.…
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Fuzzy and indistinct
One of the things that really strikes me about the orbital renderings that I’ve done is how fuzzy and indistinct the renderings are. One of the main reasons I added the slice view is that I had such a hard time understanding what I was looking at. The outer layers many times completely obscured the…