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Re: Questions for John Sefton

From Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: Questions for John Sefton
Date 2016-01-23 12:02 -0600
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On 1/22/2016 2:03 PM, john wrote:
> Hmm.
> You're right, Michael.
> That prof called my Galaxy Pattern
> Great Circles when in reality it's
> Lissajous?
> But I looked all through the Lissajous and
> never found it.
>
> Nevertheless, Odd should be able to derive
> the equation from the pattern if he claims to be
> able to visualize ANYTHING from an equation.
> If he has no idea what an equation represents,
> visually, why's he playing the math card?
>

Lissajous figures are traced by a parameterized curve. In 3D, it would 
like this: [x(s), y(s), z(s)]
where
x(s) = A*sin(a*s)
y(s) = B*sin(b*s + b0)
z(s) = C*sin(c*s + c0)
where A,B,C,a,b,c,b0,c0 are tunable numbers, with the restriction that 
a/b and b/c are rational numbers ("rational" numbers is a math term, and 
it doesn't mean "sensible" or "intelligent" or "logical").

If you want to "read" the math here, here's a couple things you can see 
immediately: when something goes a complete loop N times in one 
direction, it will go also go around a complete loop M times in another 
direction. This you will recognize when you say something like the disc 
precesses twice every time the disc revolves once. It also helps if you 
recognize that sine function as describing the oscillation of something 
revolving. There's actually a lot more that can be read like a language 
from those three equations, but I just wanted to give you a couple of 
"sentences" that in the whole, long "paragraph" expressed by those 
equations.

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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