Great visualization!
It would be good to add some fog for a better perception of 3D.
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#42This is mesmerizing and very cool. Thank you!
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#43How do I write my custom attractor equation ?
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you think an AI can learn this intuition by training it in similar environment?
Can we train our neurons? Like the experiment where human vision adapted to upside down image, could our brains somehow adapt to understanding 4D data from VR headset?
I'm sure some form of training is possible where you get a better understanding of a 4D universe with some limited inference abilities, but with a bad analogy, this would all be "software emulated" with no hardware acceleration - we only have the latter for 3D and we can't update it without a hardware change.
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#45Mesmerizing stuff.
Can you allow changing attractor control constants without resetting the sim? E.g. going from 0.19 to 0.21 in Thomas while it's already in a stable state.
It's be interesting to see what'll happen.
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#46I'd like one of these as my screen saver. Great work!
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The conclusion I’ve come to from works like Flatland, 4D toys, etc., is that we simply don’t have the neural circuitry to grasp anything beyond three dimensions. We can reason about them, we can make inferences about the whole from partial understanding, but we cannot truly grasp more than three, or perhaps only for an instant of forced conceptualization using heuristics like you mentioned. Even three is a stretch, o…
Do you think an AI can learn this intuition by training it in similar environment?
Good point, why not? Communicating it back to us could be a problem.
Hmm.. what if future ais hide data from us in dimensions we can’t wrap our heads around?
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we train our neurons? Like the experiment where human vision adapted to upside down image, could our brains somehow adapt to understanding 4D data from VR headset?
I'm sure some form of training is possible where you get a better understanding of a 4D universe with some limited inference abilities, but with a bad analogy, this would all be "software emulated" with no hardware acceleration - we only have the latter for 3D and we can't update it without a hardware change.
With future improvements in brain-computer interfaces it might well be possible to send a 4D visual signal into the brain.
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#49This is really pretty. A loong time ago when I wrote a Lorentz attractor on my 486 with turbo pascal and inline assembler, I could only dream of such smoothness back then...
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#50Super cool and well done. They are much better in 3D! :)
I made a similar experiment a while ago and randomized the parameters. Given it's difficult to stumble on a stable arrangement, I turned it into a small game to find pretty ones: (big disclaimer: this involves NFT tech, please skip if you're against that sort of stuff) https://karimjedda.com/symmetry-in-chaos-my-first-generative...