Archive for January, 2010

The Sound of Chaos

Chaos theory and its little cousin – strange attractors – have been around for a long time. Pictures of chaotic systems and strange attractors abound, and they are a mainstay for computer math experimentalists, although still in the minor leagues relative to the Mandelbrot set. Most implementations tend to ignore the fact that these systems [...]

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SeaDragon – Microsoft does something right

In the past year, I’ve experimented with different ways to visualize non-Euclidean tessellations.  Mainly, I’ve made movies with simple zooms or animations. But sometimes I think I want something more interactive, so that viewers can explore tessellations as they wish, as opposed to watching them fly by. Last year, I dabbled with creating some ways [...]

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