Tesla's Vortex (Mathologer Coding Competition)

[Jarvis323]

Mathologer made a cool video recently about "Tesla's Vortex", or rather a cool method of generating patterns using repeated multiplication and modulus to generate repeating sequences, and then plotting those sequences around a circle. This creates cardiods and other related patterns, a different one for each multiplier and modulus parameter. They asked viewers to make a web app for generating these patterns as a coding challenge.



Anyway, so I made one and made a bunch of patterns. So I was wondering if anyone has ideas for how to make improvements or add features for different coloring or rendering. I tried coloring edges by length, but it doesn't look like in the video, and I think the images in the video are not actually coloring edges by length? Unless maybe the edges were also rendered in sorted order by length so that you cannot see the long edges crossing crossing the diameter (only in the center).

I was also messing around with post processing apply mean curvature smoothing and then sharpening, which has a cool effect. Anyone with more advanced mathematical knowledge know if there is any interesting mathematical interpretation of those results?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_curvature

Anyone interested in the coding challenge and want some pointers feel free to ask, and also post any cool patterns you generate or comments on the mathematics.

 

[jedishrfu]

Nice work! You could port your program to the Processing environment too. There's a javascript variant of Processing called p5js.org .

Also check Rosettacode.org to see if there are any solutions on site, if not you could donate your code to the cause.

 

[Jarvis323]

Nice work! You could port your program to the Processing environment too. There's a javascript variant of Processing called p5js.org .

Also check Rosettacode.org to see if there are any solutions on site, if not you could donate your code to the cause.

Thanks. It's currently implemented in Javascript with WebGL. I might share the code if I get time to clean it up a little.