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Visualize trajectories of high dimensional system in a two dimensional space [closed]

I have high dimensional data from a dynamical system (neural network) and I would like to visualize its trajectory. I came across a paper where they used classical multidimensional scaling to plot the ...
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How to visualize a 3D scalar function? [closed]

In physics, we regularly deal with observables, which are functions $f(x,y,z)$ of the position vector $\vec r = (x,y,z)$. How, do you plot such a function? For functions $y=f(x)$ of 1 parameter, we ...
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Feynman diagrams in three dimensions

Is there such a thing as an extension of Feynman diagrams into three dimensions? Canonical Feynman diagrams use one space and one time dimension to visualize processes involving elementary particles ...
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Is imaging 10 dimension video by Rob Bryanton has any invalid/wrong information?

I just watch this youtube video and wonder that is there anything invalid/wrong in term of real physics. I search for Rob Bryanton and it look like he has not-so-good reputation, for example here ...
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Crystal visualization software for visualizing lattice with reciprocal vectors drawn in same image [closed]

I'm looking for a free crystal visualization program, preferably for Linux, that can visualize the common lattice structures in 3D interactively (rotatable with mouse) and draw in the same picture the ...
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Visualization of dynamics of a scale-free network of Ising spins [closed]

What software can I use to visualize the dynamics of a scale-free network of Ising spins? The network has 10,000 nodes and an average of 10 degrees per node. The exponent of the power law is -2.4 for ...
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What does sound waves moving through 3D space look like, visually?

Imagine a room filled with air particles. How would a sound wave move in that room, refract from walls, and eventually dissipate? I'd love to see a animation or simulation of some sorts of it.
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Find the real height of an object by eyes

I wonder if I can get the height of an object (tree or a building) with the knowledge of: The distance between me and the object? The apparent height of that object?
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How do photo mosaic work from eye and image processing perspective? [closed]

Hello fellow investigators I have two question about optical illusions 1) A photo mosaic is something like this http://i.stack.imgur.com/Pzplp.png What are the optical principles behind our eye ...
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What is your prefered toolkit / program for 3D visualisations of data? [closed]

If you recorded data which represents some physical value in space (e.g. electron density) and you need to explore this dynamically in 3d (say you have a isosurface and you change the value it ...
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How can one imagine curled up dimensions?

Actually I'm learning String Theory, and one of its proposals is that there are actually 25+1 dimensions of which only 3+1 are visible to us-- and the remaining are curled up. However, superstring ...
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How can I vizualize and understand curved spaces in general relativity?

I'm taking a basic physics class and the teacher described space with a special table that has curves and black holes etc. He would throw a metal ball down onto it and the class would watch it circle ...
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Graphing measurements with uncertainties

I need to draw a graph of measurements of time for a ball to drop on an inclined plane, with error bars, along with lines of best and worst fit. The problem is that I need to do this on the computer ...
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Why is it common to plot $xG(x,Q^2)$ and not simply $G(x,Q^2)$?

I'm trying to understand the modern description of high-energy scattering processes involving hadrons in the initial states. The phenomenological parton distributions functions play a central role, ...
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How to display particles [closed]

Not exactly physics question but physicist must have encountered this problem before. In my code I generate a table of six tab separated columns (x,y,z,type,charge,id). I want to create a 3d ...
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How fast do I need to go in order to avoid being seen by the Police?

I was driving down the road at roughly the speed of traffic. I saw a police officer parked on the side of the road, and also noticed that a Semi was traveling in the lane right next to him. This got ...
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Visualizing Electromagnetic Waves in 3D Space

I did one module of physics for my GCSE one year ago which taught me about transverse EM waves & the EM spectrum, but since then, I do not understand how a wave would move in 3D space. Can someone ...