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If

2020

A physical experiment created in an attempt to visualize the chaotic nature of the double pendulum.

The double pendulum, seen above being released from the same point ten times, follows a path that is sensitively dependant on its initial conditions. Minuscule inconsistencies in the pendulum's release are magnified throughout its fall. The highly varying paths converge again as they come to a point of equilibrium, the end of their journey.

© Shane Ackerley

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