By periodically plotting a line between the location of two planets overtime, beautiful and mathematically inspiring patterns begin to form.
Each “spoke" on the edge represents a point in time where data was collected and therefore a specific location of each planet, and each different colored line represents one orbit of the inner planet (which has a smaller orbit). The number of orbits on each chart represents the smallest common number of orbits the inner planet must go through for the outer planet to go through a whole number of orbits as well.
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Nice - I should really add that to http://www.robert-king.com/experiments/solar-system/
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ReplyDeleteit looks like when you plot multidimentional cube analogues in 2 dimensions. they end up like these (pretty beautiful too)
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ReplyDeleteGosh... I remember doing that...not as good as this lot though
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