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Topic: attractors: peter de jong "dead spots"? (Read 2666 times) |
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lunetta
 
 
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attractors: peter de jong "dead spots"?
« on: Mar 8th, 2005, 4:21pm » |
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Hello all
Yes, yes, I know: I don't know a thing about attractors.
Anyway, is so easy to make a good looking animation that I can't help not doing it.
My question is: I'm building this peter de jong attractor animation, but the "dead spots" keep haunting me:
I'm increasing one parameter(or more) per frame, creating a smooth change in the plotted formula; but there are oscillations - a certain form becomes a dot and then returns to the form again.
These attractors are surely "strange", but is there any trick that I could do to avoid the sudden oscillation, leaving the change smooth?
example here:
Quote:
float x, y, xn, yn;
float a, b, c, d;
color bla;
float timer;
void setup() {
background(255);
framerate(60);
bla = color(0,0,0);
size (640, 480);
x = 0;
y = 0;
b = -2.3;
}
void loop() {
timer+=0.01;
background(255);
c = 3*cos(timer);
d = 3*sin(timer);
a = 3*cos(timer);
for(int i=0; i<30000; i++) {
xn = x;
yn = y;
x = sin(a*yn) - cos(b*xn);
y = sin(c*xn) - cos(d*yn);
set(int(width/2+100*x),int(height/2+100*y), bla);
}
}
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Sjeiti
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Re: attractors: peter de jong "dead spots"?
« Reply #1 on: Mar 8th, 2005, 5:05pm » |
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There's probably not much you can do about that. Attractors just have these kinds of glitches where very small changes can make them suddenly converge into one or more points or diverge to infinity.
If you really want to maybe you could just filter out the 'bad' frames by some sort of maximum amount of change calculation.
Or if a certain amount of points is in the same spot discard the current iteration and go on to the next.
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lunetta
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Re: attractors: peter de jong "dead spots"?
« Reply #2 on: Mar 8th, 2005, 6:48pm » |
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yep, that's what I thought. I'm just now figuring out the best way to do it - without a great penalty to speed...
thanks
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macavity13
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Re: attractors: peter de jong "dead spots"?
« Reply #4 on: Mar 22nd, 2005, 8:25pm » |
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Nice 
You should try the same thing but using color to show the change in velocity between points, might have a nice effect.
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