An Interference Pattern

I don’t know about you, but this reminds me of a spider (my favorite animal).

Isosceles Interference Pattern (two versions)

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isosceles interference pattern

isosceles interference pattern

Interference Spider with Two Eyes Showing (from 2013)

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spider interference pattern 2013

Every now and then, I find something I created some years ago, but never blogged here. This is another such piece, which I made in 2013 (using Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint), but did not name until today.

Euclid’s Spiders

euclid's spiders

The image of two black spiders above is created by interference, and is an example of an interference pattern. The figures which are interfering are four points (and the rays which go with them), two close together on the right, and two close together on the left, but with the two pairs in different orientations. Each point has 240 rays emanating from it, and the rays are equidistant (in terms of angle measure), making each of these rays one euclid (1.5º) apart from its nearest neighbors.

Interference

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Interference

Dipole

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Dipole

Ripples

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Ripples

An interference pattern / op art piece created with Geometer’s Sketchpad and MS-Paint.

Interfering Ripples

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Interfering Ripples