Mono-monostatic Bodies

[Gregory]

This is slightly related... http://springerlink.com/content/kg7478m3l4394666/

I have just heard in the local radio today, that two Hungarian guy figured out something interesting, called mono-monostatic bodies.

It is a class of three dimensional homogeneous bodies which have less than 4 equilibrium. The article shows one which has only 2, one stable and one unstable equilibrium (or position).

The body made from one material, and it is a special 3 dimensional geometrical shape. They compared it to a tippe-top. The interesting thing is that it does not contain weights or anything other than itself...
They also compared the shape to a turtle shell and noticed some similarity.

Here are the related articles in Pdf format. The last one is rather for mathematician guys who like reading equations, integrations and such...

http://www.szt.bme.hu/Munkatrs/domokos/ ... al/100.pdf
http://www.szt.bme.hu/Munkatrs/domokos/ ... nal/99.pdf
http://www.szt.bme.hu/Munkatrs/domokos/ ... nal/93.pdf

And some more various articles:

http://www.iit.bme.hu/~domokos/doc/DGPUBCIT_WWW.htm

[LustInBlack]

You and me are on the same wavelength in geometry...

[Gregory]

Yes, we are. ;]

I'm weak in maths, but natural things, such as sunflower, seashells, pine-cone... so spirals, fractals, Fibonacci numbers, etc. make strange impressions in me.

I think people, including the greatest mathematicians still don't exactly understand what these things represent / symbolize and why. I also have no idea.

But something is going on with them...

[LustInBlack]

Nature way of replicating itself.. !?

Before I even start thinking about free energy, I was trying to "simulate" the universe on my computer..

I made a program that would get a chaotic function and using the variables I tried to get simple things to build up on my screen ..

I saw simple toruses, star field, some movement, galaxies spirals, soem lifeforms..

Really, it was just a matter of the variables you set in the function and things were drawn on the screen and sometimes it gave impressive results.. but sure enough, I didn't go much further and went to another project..

I really dream about this software, where I enter the date, time, position and I see what is happening in real time on my computer screen ..
That would be so nice ...

[Gregory]

Yeah, that would be too nice... I think I will be very frightened when you would show me your program working! :) I recommend you to read the book: A briefer history of time from Hawking.

So as I see, we are crazy on the same way... Guess what did I try to crack before, just for fun?

Lottery numbers...
I was good enough programming in the old Pascal. I downloaded the whole 5/90 lottery database, sorted in a text file, and began to analyze hoping I can find some correspondence, cause - result, or pattern... Finally I found some little thing, and programmed all of them to narrowing the possibilities for new number generations. It worked, I think, but not good enough.

After some time, I wasn't surprised anymore when the program threw out a 4 hit from 1500-2000 lines. It was usually to threw out 2 & 3 hit series from not too much try.

The source was terrible to see, full of logical operators in big blocks and such. Once I showed it to a programming guy friend, and I could see on his face he thinks I am completely crazy.

But after all it wasn't a magic wand, and I wasn't as stupid, so I didn't spend my money on lottery, just wrote & expand the program for fun. :) After 12 - 20 thousands of lines and over 6-7 source code files, pascal gave it up... So I. It was also bad to work on it.

But perhaps, once I will give it another try with Delphi, or C++. However I didn't try programming for a 1,5 years now.

[LustInBlack]

Hahah .. Greg, we have more in common than I thought..

Turbo pascal and Delphi are my favorite programming languages..

I have a friend that did just that, but I believe he didn't go as far as you did. .


I can send you the software if you are interested in it, with the source.. It's under developpement so it's not a nice little user-friendly software, but it does the job !


Well here it is.. I stripped some functions in this version, but essentially you can create strange stuff by changing the variables etc..

The things I stripped, were the chaotic compression function I tried to create.. Another project ...


Try something fun try these variables :

-0.634
1.6669
-0.7
-1.9
50000 EXP

In 3D

Play with the input where you arebored..

[Gregory]

Thanks!

I downloaded. Tried to run, but for some reason do not want to work. It always say the same: Invalid initial value.

What to give it for initial value?

[LustInBlack]

Awhhhhh that depends on how your windows is setup ..
If you are using , instead of . in the decimals of your numbers in windows, it will act this way..

Try 0,00 instead of 0.00..

That should do it ..

[Gregory]

Yes, the dot solved the problem... Wow! Cool! A bit addictive... Thank you! :-) So, you wrote it in Delphi... Good, I think I will learn programming in it soon or later.

The curves your program draw reminds me of the CERN particle experiment pictures. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PhotoDat ... lcome.html

One of my favorite:
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/ ... 6954B.jpeg
http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/ ... 07077.jpeg

The variables you wrote were really fun... Have you more noted? 8]

[LustInBlack]

Hey Greg!


I didn't note much of the variables I tried.. But play with them, put negatives and play with Input buttons and you'll get interesting stuff !

The Input buttons are inserting noise into the functions..

The CERN images are real nice.. Looks chaotic, I like it .. 8]