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All Shapes in One Equation?

Posted by chrisd on from the coolness dept.

asadodetira writes ""One simple equation can generate a vast diversity of natural shapes, a Belgian biologist has discovered. Nature has the story. "The Superformula" sounds impressive, apparently its only for shapes, i thought you could solve lots of PDE's or tensor integrals or something with this, but not, it's only for shapes."

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  1. Java applet visualisation by FrenZon · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a java applet online that allows you to fiddle with the values in the equation and generate the 'super'shapes in realtime:

    bodytag.org/supershapes1/