Category: Physics
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Atomic Orbitals now a chrome experiment
I’ve finally got some code accepted as a chrome experiment. This time it’s a renderer for atomic orbitals using webGL. The technique isn’t so much a ray tracer as much as a ray shader. It sums the probability distribution over rays passing through the orbitals. I’m thinking about ways to adapt it to a solid…
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I think I’ve decided
I’m going back to including a short summary and linking to the page with the demo. Unfortunately, there are just fewer issues that way. So I’ve got another view of the inverse square potential, this time, many test bodies starting at the same point with multiple velocities. Some of the interesting features of this setup…
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The best surprises come from unexpected places
This time I’m back with some more physics visualizations with a flat 2d canvas. I’m skipping over some demos of basic physics to get at some orbital mechanics animations that I found surprising. I’ve derived and calculated solutions for two objects gravitationally bound to each other from my freshman physics classes back in college. Then…
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This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in quite a while
Sometime back in college I got the idea that it would be really interesting to listen to the waveforms generated from some of the dynamical systems I was studying at the time, namely the Lorenz equation, predator prey equations and the like. I never got off my butt to do anything about it and it’s…
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Now we’re getting somewhere
Ok, I’ve made a few tweaks. Removed a close path call that was adding an extra random line. I’ve played around with the 3d projection and I’ve tweaked the color scheme, line width and alpha settings. Lorenz attractor Related Images:
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Lorenz attractor v1
I’m still working out some issues with the 3d to 2d projection, but I’ve been preoccupied with differential equation solvers (like the runge-kutta in this case)over the past few weeks. Again these are pages that are best viewed in chrome, because of the raw performance of the javascript engine. This page shows a rotating view…