July 03, 2008

Parabola focus animation

Parabola is well-known by its property of focusing light in one point called focus.
I've just created interactive demo showing this parabola property.

Of course, I created the demo using processing.org


Demo simulates light photons physics assuming photons to be rigid particles. The particles bounce off parabola. When you move mouse, you change parabola focus.

Demo is located here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is great - a very nice illustration of the idea.

cheers,

Matt

Alexander Sorokin said...

Thanks, Matt
processing.org is a very nice platform for trying ideas.