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932
... I overlooked the obvious point that whenever you've got a function with one variable on one side of the equation, you can just parameterize it by replacing...
Chris Young
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Apr 1, 2006
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936
Haven't quite got the angle contours and the radial contours both lined up with the checkerboard pattern. Need to fiddle with the scale factor a little. It...
Chris Young
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Apr 1, 2006
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937
I think I already know the answer to this, but is there any way to get a decent random noise signal plot in GC? It would be great to be able to input the power...
Bill Briggs
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Apr 1, 2006
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... http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CliffRandomNumberGenerator.html has ... Unfortunately, GC doesn't do recursion, but you could write out a table of 100 or so...
Chris Young
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Apr 1, 2006
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Your MathWorld link concludes: "This simple generator passes the noise sphere test for randomness by showing no structure." I think my lecture this morning...
Russell Penner
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Apr 3, 2006
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940
This combination seems to work best in this case, where there's 3-fold cylindrical symmetry and where the evolution of the graph with higher n can be clearly...
Chris Young
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Apr 4, 2006
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941
I have just bought this package and have a basic problem: if I add text in the math pane and then save the file, when I reopen it, the text does not appear!...
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Apr 28, 2006
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942
... Hello, If anyone else has this problem, send me a message privately and I'll provide a patch which ought to fix it. Best regards, Ron Avitzur...
Ron Avitzur
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Apr 28, 2006
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943
Has anyone come up with a good way to plot Poincre sections in GC? The trouble I'm having is that I haven't thought of a good way to plot many points. David...
david craig
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Apr 29, 2006
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944
I'm trying to get a neat slice-off of a torus along the plane of the Villarceau circles. One way to do this seems to be to find the equation for the curve...
Chris Young
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May 1, 2006
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Since the height can be expressed in terms of the projected distance to a point and the wheel-radius ("c" here) and tube-diameter ("a") of the torus, we can...
Chris Young
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May 4, 2006
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Haven't quite got the bottom half working, and this is pretty kludgy, but it points the way to taking general sections of a torus. Change "m" to change the...
Chris Young
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May 4, 2006
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There hasn't been anything on the site lately, so just thought I'd pass this along. Still plugging away at graphing toruses. Can't find the notes that I got...
Chris Young
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May 11, 2006
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948
I think I'm most of the way to being able to cut off a torus cleanly with an intersecting plane. Here's a step on the way: cutting off a parametric cylinder...
Chris Young
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May 12, 2006
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949
Almost there. One general approach is to find the parametric equation of the intersection curve from the two parametric equations for the surface. I'm not sure...
Chris Young
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May 16, 2006
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950
Not quite perfect, but seems to achieve the goal of slicing off a cylinder cleanly with an inclined cutting plane, whatever the angle. Angle of cutting plane...
Chris Young
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May 20, 2006
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951
Here, the surface has been colored by the value of the parameter u. It would seem better to me to be able to color the surface with cleanly cut-off,...
Chris Young
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May 20, 2006
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952
One more view that shows animated slicing off of the cylinder by the moving inclined plane....
Chris Young
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May 20, 2006
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953
Here's a cleaned-up, clearer version of the sliced-off cylinder. Still haven't got the horizontal lines cut off correctly....
Chris Young
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May 20, 2006
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954
Got it simplified. All the drawing uses two functions, for the left and right halves of the cylinder: Different forms and combinations of parameters let you do...
Chris Young
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May 22, 2006
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955
Here's a file where you can rotate the whole cylinder....
Chris Young
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May 22, 2006
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956
Sorry, the last version didn't have the degree mark put in for the angle of rotation. Here's the fixed version. If you rotate to minus the angle of the cutting...
Chris Young
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May 22, 2006
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957
Aiming to rotate the cones around and up and down, like search lights, to illustrate conic sections as projections more vividly. The cone function has been...
Chris Young
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May 25, 2006
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958
Here are some linear algebra examples where you can experiment with the different effects of doing transformations in different orders. You have to be careful...
Chris Young
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May 25, 2006
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959
Just to give it the complete treatment, here you can translate the copy of the cone with the a, b, and c sliders. Also, new and improved coloring!...
Chris Young
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May 25, 2006
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960
Just trying to figure out if the intersection of two circular cones is always two straight lines, even if they have different slant angles. Looks like it. Also...
Chris Young
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May 25, 2006
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For what it's worth, you start getting some nice intersection curves if you translate the vertex of one cone away from the other....
Chris Young
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