The focus of a rolling parabola traces out a catenary, the curve of a hanging chain held by its ends.
OK...this was interesting ;)
Source:
http://blog.matthen.com/
#mathematics #animation #processing #parabola
Tuesday, 8 September 2015
The focus of a rolling parabola traces out a catenary, the curve of a hanging chain held by its ends.
The focus of a rolling parabola traces out a catenary, the curve of a hanging chain held by its ends.
OK...this was interesting ;)
Source:
http://blog.matthen.com/
#mathematics #animation #processing #parabola
That's freaky. It takes some thinking to figure out why that happens.
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ReplyDeleteCaustics are quite beautiful. I think I remember there being a chapter dedicated to them in Bruce and Giblin's Curves and Singularities, but it might be another book.
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