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Pendulum Art on a Spread sheet.

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Both the OpenOffice and Excel version are included. The Excel version unfortunately appears to have problems getting its slider controls to work properly, at least on a MacBookPro. If you download the Openoffice version, the file's extension my need to be changed to something like "FWVEAA8FR123iEH.ods".
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Aug 22, 2010. 3:44 PMLight_Lab says:
I built a real pendulum harmonogram when I was a kid and I tried many years ago to do the patterns in Excel. I could never get enough data sets in Excel though to make smooth lines. Nowadays In the lab we are always running out of data space with Excel so we use Origin.---- You have used a nice trick via the smooth lines function so you don't need as much data. The only problem is the curves are NQR when you get into some patterns. I one day I might try this in Origin.
Aug 26, 2010. 6:50 PMLight_Lab says:
Thanks for the lead seems like SCILAB is similar to MatLAB which I can get a company license for but takes some money from my budget. Looks like SCILAB is free I will definitely follow that up. Yes 3D harmonograms would be cool but don't over look the fact that you can mathematically model the vector sum of any number of pendulums in 2D or 3D; and use other functions than simple sines. Many things you cannot do with a mechanical harmonogram. BTW I once tried putting a loosely strung rubber band on one of the pendulums made a cool variation.
Feb 8, 2010. 5:29 PMspiderfurby says:
very clever - do you have more examples?
Aug 22, 2010. 3:32 PMLight_Lab says:
Paste into Windows Paint (under accessories); save as a BMP and then just use the Instructables image manager. Then you can add them to your article or emails.

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