{"id":4176,"date":"2012-01-23T22:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T14:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2025-03-06T16:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:59:46","slug":"the-path-of-a-double-pendulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/23\/the-path-of-a-double-pendulum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Path Of A Double Pendulum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look at that. Isn’t that beautiful? Doesn’t it look chaotic, and yet strangely elegant?<\/p>\n

This is the path of a double pendulum.<\/p>\n

Small changes, such as changing the angle between the two pendulums when released, would generate a gratuitous amount of widely different pathways. The end result is extremely sensitive to initial conditions.<\/p>\n

Now the thing that strikes me is how aesthetically beautiful this is. I think this is because our minds are actually capable of making sense of it. We can see that it isn’t absolutely random chaos- there’s a certain pattern to it. If we had the original formula, we could generate it. It looks like a Jackson Pollock painting, it reads like a Murakami narrative. It’s like a beautiful piece of music, of poetry, of dance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is where art meets science, in my view. Complexity. Chaos. Elegance. I can’t quite express it properly yet but I hope you can see what I’m getting at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at that. Isn’t that beautiful? Doesn’t it look chaotic, and yet strangely elegant? This is the path of a double pendulum. Small changes, such as changing the angle between the two pendulums when released, would generate a gratuitous amount of widely different pathways. The end result is extremely sensitive… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[773],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ecology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-15m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14616,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions\/14616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}