Questions tagged [visualization]
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How sound is represented in a graph?
Let me imagine that air nearby has structure like this, meaning that
pressure variation without any disturbance is almost equal.
Now if I speak, I set some molecules of it in motion. They move with
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Visualization of axisymmetric flows
This question might be vague but I want to get a feeling for axisymmetric flows. In mathematics a vector field $v=v(r,\theta,z)$ where $(r,\theta,z)$ are cylindrical coordinates is axisymmetric if it ...
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Using repelling and attracting forces, how to achieve a grid/square layout of nodes instead of triangular layout
I am trying to figure out what kind of forces, however artificial, would result in a layout of objects in a grid:
I am trying to use d3 to draw grids - there may be more than one solution. I ...
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Visualizing the conformal compactification diagram of $G$
I asked a question a year and 3 months ago on mathstackexchange but after 3 bounties and still no answer I've decided to try here. Here's the link: conformal compactification.
Construct a conformal ...
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Why do magnetic fields exist as line? [duplicate]
why there are no magnetic field lines between two magnetic field lines. why don't magnetic fields exist as a solid Ovid of influence?
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Gravity and space bending question [duplicate]
Not a physicist here but something has been puzzling me for a while.
As I understand gravity in General Relativity, it bends the space time as this Picture. Now this is all nice and elegant if I look ...
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Is there a way to visualize curvature of time?
Is there a way to visualize curvature of time? I mean curvature of space is both mathematically and physically is comprehensible. I have doubt about curvature of time.
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Why are magnetic field lines imaginary?
There are many sources online which say that magnetic field lines are imaginary such as Toppr, Vedantu and CBSE Academic.
I do know that magnetic fields are real and do exist. But when can we see ...
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General relativity in layman’s terms (doubt)
I’m a high school student. I was reading a PhD thesis by Rickard Jonsson about visualising general relativity. Fig. 2.11 explained the motion of an apple thrown up into the sky by saying that it’s not ...
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How to plot Kerr geodesics?
In $ x^{\mu}= \{t,\rho,\theta,\phi\}$Boyer-Lindquist coordinates the Kerr solution takes a manageable form. Given some initial conditions $x^{\mu}(\lambda=0)$ and $\dfrac{dx^{\mu}}{d\lambda}(\lambda=0)...
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Spacetime Visual Aid Concept
How do you envision spacetime? What visual-aid(s) have helped you the most?
We have all probably seen the “bowling ball on a trampoline” construct but the big problem with that is it represents ...
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How to visualize Kinematics or Classical Physics?
Is there a software or a website to visualize Kinematics? For example, I want to visualize different problems on pulley system. Is there a simulation app?
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Einstein's spacetime thought doubt [closed]
In the animation of this image you can see spacetime is constantly going towards the earth's center of mass, and when a layer of spacetime reaches to the earth's center of mass another layer of ...
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What is missing to make this depiction of a Black Hole realistic?
So i am working on a Music video as a FX Artist and part of the job is a Black Hole. Now i am fairly confident that i am just about the only one on the team who cares how accurat the party is. But i ...
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What do objects mean in CERN's collision visualisation?
Trying to find a legend for some of the collision visualisations from CERN's CMS, ALICE or other experiments. The visualisation below is from the CMS Higgs Seminar (4 July 2012). What are the things ...
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Is it possible to simulate QFT to make pretty animations?
Is it possible to simulate QFT and make animations of it? For example, it is relatively straightforward to simulate something like the Schrödinger equation or the Klein–Gordon equation if you don't ...
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Visualizing Tensors in the simplest possible way
If we can represent a scalar as a number or a point, a vector as a line or a matrix, how can we represent tensors? Is it possible to visualize them using the standard cubic space?
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Doubt regarding Space-time Grids [duplicate]
I had a doubt regarding space-time grids... I just don't understand, if the universe is three-dimensional (excluding the time dimension) why do we represent the universe as a single 2D fabric of grids ...
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Visualizing the trajectory of a mass on top of a wedge on a frictionless tabletop [closed]
A wedge with mass M rests on a frictionless, horizontal tabletop. A block with mass m is placed on the wedge (Fig. 1). There is no friction between the block and the wedge. The system is released from ...
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How can I visualise waves?
A wave is a sustained disturbance produced at a point in a medium(or field) and is transmitted to other parts of the medium(or field) without the actual translatory motion of the particles.
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AdS/CFT spacetime visualization
I was inspired by comments under this answer to ask this question.
In the context of AdS/CFT, one often finds an embedding diagram of the $10d$ spacetime that I don't find particularly enlightening, ...
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Can you use something like a polarising material to shift an image horizontally?
A while ago I saw a video that I can’t recall about about some patterns being shifted horizontally with material that causes a polarising effect, I just want to know if that is true? Is it possible to ...
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Visualizing wormholes without embedding spacetime
Common visualization
Wormholes are often "explained" by a visualization like this where spacetime is reduced to two spatial dimensions:
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The problem with this visualization
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What is the "shape" of the electric potential of a moving charge? Can the field be derived as its gradient?
This is motivated by Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd Ed., by Purcell and Morin, Section 5.6.
Below is my derivation of the Lorentz transformation of the electric field due to a moving charge whose rest ...
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Identity of dynamical D$p$-branes
In my String Theory course, we introduced D$p$-branes, and I'm having trouble picturing them as dynamical objects.
We analyzed the open and closed bosonic strings, found the EoM, quantized them, and ...
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Plotting Lennard-Jones potential for Argon [closed]
I am trying to understant the Lennard-Jones potential better by trying to plot it (for Argon) with the associated interatomic force, so I have: $U(r)=\frac{B}{r^{12}}-\frac{A}{r^6},\ A=1.024\cdot 10^{...
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Visualisation tool for different speeds? [duplicate]
I'm a student often doing kinematics word problems with objects moving at X km/h, Y m/s, or Z cm/s. Yet, I have no idea what these units look like in real life.
Out of curiosity, I'm searching for a ...
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What is good software for animating results?
I am a graduate student in physics and many times when I am working on something/playing around with some expressions I would like to visualize how it looks on the computer. I usually already know (...
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Relativistic rendering: ray tracing photon paths affected by masses
Given
an initial photon position $p_{xyz}$ and its direction of travel $d_{xyz}$
a set of (point) masses, each with a location $m^i_{xyz}$ and mass $m^i_{m}$
a time step size $d$
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Proton as viewed from an orbiting electron's perspective
When I see depictions of the electron orbital of a hydrogen atom, I see a static proton in the center surrounded by an electron cloud. What would it look like if we shifted the reference frame to the ...
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Can we represent 4D graphically? [closed]
Actually I know that axes are always perpendicular but after three axes we cannot draw any other axis that is perpendicular to all the other three axes.
can any one say how can we draw another axes ...
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Terrell-Penrose effect and surface reflectance
All explanations of Terrell-Penrose effect seem imply that the effect makes some of the back-facing walls of a passing-by object visible. You can see some examples of those in many different ...
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Properties of orbit type diagrams
For fun, I created a 3d gravity simulation and colored each $(x,y)$ coordinate blue or green if a light mass put at that location would collide - within some number of simulation steps - with one of ...
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Visualization of object falling into black hole from the perspective of a distant observer
There exist a few relativistic renderings, even videos of this kind of event from the perspective of the infalling object, yet I have never seen the same event from the perspective of a distant ...
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Visualization of $n$-dimensional Hilbert spaces
I am learning quantum physics, and came across $n$-dimensional Hilbert spaces, is there any way one can visualize a $n$-dimensional space and the n components of the vectors existing in that space?
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Can many-particle wave functions be imagined in 3 dimensions - instead of $3N$ dimensions?
It is usually said that the wave function for $N$ particles cannot be imagined in 3 dimensions, but only in $3N$ dimensions. What is the exact argument? Is there a loophole?
Schrödinger, Feynman and ...
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What does it mean to have a function of a field?
There was a Leonard Susskind lecture on the Higgs Boson I watched the other day, and he talked about graphing the field where the domain was some sort of field space. The lecture is here at about 6 ...
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How to visualize newtonian objects in term of harmonic oscillators?
From the group $U(1)$ in QED, via group representation we get the harmonic oscillators. However, I still have a hard time to imagine newtonian objects (computer, headphone, etc) as a combination of ...
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How would you visualise a curvature in spacetime? [duplicate]
Just wondering how one could visualise a curvature in spacetime. If anyone has a site, image or video showing this it would be appreciated.
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Energy eigenfunctions of a truncated harmonic oscillator-like potential
Assume a potential of the form \begin{eqnarray}V(x) &=& \frac{1}{2}m\omega^2x^2,~-x_0\leq x\leq x_0,\\&=& 0,\hspace{2.5cm}{\rm otherwise} \end{eqnarray} where $x_0$ is a finite ...
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With north and south poles fixed, do all geodesics have constant $\theta$ and $\phi$?
I was going thorough reading Kolb and Turner's The Early Universe where in Section 2.2 it starts by asking the following question.
For a comoving observer with coordinates $(r_0,\theta_0,\phi_0)$, ...
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Pseudo-Riemannian 2D manifold (visualize time curvature)
My goal is to visualize somehow the curvature of time, as opposed to the curvature of space. I know that we generally talk about spacetime curvature altogether; however, the fact that spacetime has ...
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Is there a relation between this function and black holes?
I was fiddling with this complex function visualizer and accidentally found this function which looks a lot like the blackhole visualizations that I see on the net:
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f(z)=(z\bar{z}-1)^z
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SPH - data visualisation in 3D
I'm not entirely sure this is the right place to ask this sort of question, but still. I have a problem with plotting 3D simulation data that I get with SPH. Basically, I want to be able to plot a '...
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How to visualize the angular frequency in SHM?
Can anyone define how can i visualize the angular frequency(ω) in a SHM y(t)=R sin(ωt+ϕ) (where ω=2π/T).Bcoz we can visualize frequency(f=1/T) as number of times the process is repeated in 1 sec so ...
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Observable higher dimensional geometry?
I recently watched a video where in VR someone was manipulating a 4D geometry in 3D space that was changing into all kinds of different shapes as it was moving through space. What i found strange is ...
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Visualizing higher dimension [duplicate]
Why can't we visualize Higher dimensions greater than 3? Is it just because the dimensions doesn't exist (Certainly I know that space-time is four dimensional) or any other physical reasons.
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Identifying "how far away" and "how big" things look to an observer in a given metric tensor's space
Let's say I have a 2D spatial slice $h$ of a metric $g$, i.e., the $x,y$-components of $g$, and that there is a person, Alice, facing a rod that is oriented perpendicularly to the direction that she ...
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Visual simulation of gravitational lensing
Is there a way to generate an accurate visual computer simulation of gravitational lensing?
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Visually comparing variances
I have a dataset containing 8 categories, I now want to visually compare the variance between the categories. The most common approach would be to use box plots or violin plots but I would like to ...
