Sunday, January 29, 2012
"The strange attractor of the driven pendulum at the parameter values γ= 0.052, a= 0.586, ω= 0.666. The direction of view is diagonal in the state space. The red sections are Poincaré sections at ψ= 0 (in front on the right side) and at x= -π (in front on the left side). The vertical axis is the angular velocity." By Robert Doerner.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Phase portrait and time series of the Moore-Spiegel Attractor
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Variations of the Mandelbox, a fractal discovered by Tom Lowe in 2010 by applying recursive spherical folding transformations to generate fractals.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, December 25, 2011
The following sextic was found by W. Barth. It has 65 ordinary double points, the maximal possible number.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
A polyhedron made of a 7/4-Cuploid, 7 triangles, 7 squares, 1 7/3-heptagram
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
This image was created by Jonathan McCabe from a cellular automata program he wrote.
"Each pixel represents the state of the 4 cells of 4 cellular automata, which are cross coupled and have their individual state transition tables. There is a "history" or "memory" of the previous states which is used as an offset into the state transition tables, resulting in update rules which depend on what has happened at that pixel in previous generations. Different regions end up in a particular state or cycle of states, and act very much like immiscible liquids with surface tension."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
John Conway's Game of Life is a cellular automaton in which randomized cells evolve according to a fixed set of rules. Usually this evolution appears as an animation, here we see the evolution through time in a still image, with height from top to bottom corresponding to subsequent generations of cells.
Monday, December 12, 2011
"Girih tiles have interior angles that are multiples of π/5. In the examples shown here I’ve applied the girih concept to polygons with angles that are multiples of π/7."
By Joe Bartholomew
By Joe Bartholomew
The Catalan numbers are a sequence of numbers, much like the Fibonacci numbers, which are given by the equation 
Like the Fibonacci numbers, they too pop up all over the place, for example, the Catalan numbers correspond to the number of ways a regular n-gon can be divided into n-2 triangles.
Above is a visualization of the Catalan numbers.

Like the Fibonacci numbers, they too pop up all over the place, for example, the Catalan numbers correspond to the number of ways a regular n-gon can be divided into n-2 triangles.
Above is a visualization of the Catalan numbers.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Three-dimensional rendering of Julia set using distance estimation by Gert Buschmann.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
100th post!
A Wolfram Demonstration titled Combinations of Sines in the Complex Plane by Stephen Wolfram. He writes "Combinations of two sine functions must always have their zeros on the real line. Combinations of three need not. The height here is the absolute value of the sum of sine functions; the hue is the phase."
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
These images are from a Wolfram Demonstration by Michael Schreiber titled Complex Exponential Resonance. He writes "Complex exponentials of complex exponentials feature resonance patterns. There is only one polygon; black regions are under an odd number of self-overlays."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
This sculpture is 8 feet in diameter and, from what I can tell, is a compound of five octahedra (a stellation of the icosahedron). The designs are projected onto its surface.
“Parmenides I” by artist Dev Harlan
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
This image has always been my favorite example of recursion.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
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