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Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

Matt Henderson

@matthen.com

Steven Strogatz has excellent writing and lectures on this @stevenstrogatz.com youtu.be/HljJv7Hf6Zo?...

youtu.beMAE5790-15 Chaotic waterwheelYouTube video by Cornell MAE

13/9/26, 5:38 pm2 reposts36 likes

SiegeLord

@siegelordex.bsky.social

14 Sept

I like the version from the video within the video, seems a lot mechanically simpler, and potentially more accurate since you can make the buckets very small. I wonder how easy it would be to make a mechanical transducer to read off the CoM from it.

Anyone recognise it?

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Minor Mobius@minormobius.bsky.social

You can’t improve on a Henderson post but if you want more I offer henderhead.mino.mobi/wheel With sliders and a phase map and a twin wheel started a billionth of a second later. One important feature of chaotic systems is that small changes lead to big changes, visible toward the end of this

Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️

@satyrs.eu

13 Sept

Holy fuck I went to Nemo all the time as a kid, this image immediately unlocked memories i didn’t even know i had

Matt Henderson

@matthen.com

13 Sept

Cool! Fun place 😄

Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️

@satyrs.eu

13 Sept

It was the best place in the world to be a nerdy 7-year-old with techie parents :-)

Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️

@satyrs.eu

13 Sept

The giant robot they had haunted my nightmares for *months* bsky.app/profile/saty...

Xanthe van Lambtonworm 🐉️🎃️@satyrs.eu

When i was a kid i was terrified of the creepy ass giant robot they had at the science centre in Amsterdam I still want to know who looked at this thing and said “yeah, that’ll get the kids interested in technology”