How to waste a day thinking you're doing physics

[fractaltime]

http://www.thecleverest.com/content/attractors.swf

Comments

[pooperman]

must... break... myself... away... resistance... failing...

[fractaltime]

Have you managed to capture them yet?

[pooperman]

Sure--was that supposed to be difficult, or did I not really capture them?

You know you can move the fulcrums around as well, right? (Both pitch and location.)

[fractaltime]

Capture with dots only.

[pooperman]

Ah--I see what you mean now.

I can get them captured for a short time, then some instabilities build up and they escape one by one.

I assume the small dots don't interact with each other, otherwise the calculations required would be horrendous.

I must break away from this site, in spite of the apparent challenge of relatively-stable capture, before I go mad and lose my job...

[fractaltime]

Play it at home and lose your wife/girlfriend instead ... *grin*

[pooperman]

I'm working from home at the moment--I can get it all done in one step!