I was in an advert
My PhD program put out a call for people to be in an advert and I accepted. I spent a day being made to feel like a celebrity by Joy of Angel Sharp Media. I'm really impressed with how good they managed to make us look!
If anyone
Salah Kouhen
Kills 99.9% of germs
You have likely seen this marketing phrase on disinfectant before, but what does it mean? Does it mean that of all the germs that exist, the product can kill 99.9% of the varieties?
Not quite. Let’s indulge a little and dive into this. First of all, what’s
Creating a novel chaos game
The concept of self-organised criticality (SOC) was invented in the late 80s. The idea is that a system can naturally evolve towards a critical point and then stay there. The example first used to introduce the idea was called the sandpile model. The sandpile model is a cellular automata with
Magnetic pendulum choice maker
Chaos is fascinating. Where a released pendulum will end up around magnets is incredibly complicated. You can explore this in a fantastic interactive visualisation from Ingo Berg.
I decided a decision-making app where each magnet represented something you wanted to decide between, would be a fun project.
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Game of life writer
Play
This JavaScript app converts text into cells and plots them on a canvas. These cells then evolve according to the classic rules of the game of life. The game of life illustrates how complex behaviour can arise from simple rules, a key concept in chaos theory. In this case
Fractal portal VFX idea
A while ago I was watching Chris Danforth's lecture series on chaos. During one of the lectures he showed the Julia sets, which you can play around with here.
I thought that moving along the negative real axis would make a really cool portal opening effect. I made
Julia set explorer
A few weeks ago I wrote a bit about how Mandelbrot zooms are created, check that out here. Today's article is about that fractal's relatives, the Julia sets.
To refresh ourselves, the Mandelbrot set is generated by asking whether zero will explode or not when you