Plotting field lines during iteration...

[Chris Thomasson]

cool paper, yes, line integral convolution is very mighty, i love seeing them in motion ! snapshoting a vector field and seeing its motion distribution is just cool

I agree about the paper, and the overall technique. What a great method to help an observer visualize a vector field in a given state of motion.

When I get some more time, I will go ahead implement this!

Thanks again for the heads up.

;^D

[claude]

I don't think increasing G will help in the long run (as you zoom deeper, I think the required G increases without bound).  This is why I find the method unsatisfactory (a kind of mathematical aesthetics), even though the images look interesting.

The glitch occurs because Z can get really small sometimes, with the following Z being a more regular size.  The iteration count where Z gets small can be visualized using atom domains, see the link Adam posted.

[Chris Thomasson]

I don't think increasing G will help in the long run (as you zoom deeper, I think the required G increases without bound).  This is why I find the method unsatisfactory (a kind of mathematical aesthetics), even though the images look interesting.

The glitch occurs because Z can get really small sometimes, with the following Z being a more regular size.  The iteration count where Z gets small can be visualized using atom domains, see the link Adam posted.

I think I most likely have to totally agree with you on this one. Thank you for taking a look, and actually trying it out claude.

I am wondering if G can dynamically scale along with the current zoom scale. Well, now there is a problem, if you set G to the largest number its type can hold, then the escape condition would never trip, right? Humm...

Well, at least this does work for some levels of zooming.

Yikes!

;^o

Need to think a lot more on this...



Thanks again claude!

:^)

[Chris Thomasson]

Humm... This is just a shot in the dark, but what if Z was a float and G was a double? Would that avoid the glitch popping its ugly artifacts out wrt zooming into the limits of a float?

Damn!

;^o