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Why are vector fields so weird?
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Why are vector fields so weird?
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What this is?
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>>7927681
Deforming a circle with a vector field.
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>>7927678
Vector fields aren't weird at all. Algebraically they're usually fairly trivial unless we work in the complex plane.
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Protip: Don't find out about this construct until it's too late, like I did:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient
Not really related to OP
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>>7927678
Share the code?
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>>7927822
The equations are:
x = x + 0.1*sin(y)^2
y = y + 0.1*sin(x)^2

The code itself it exceedingly simple, just run the points of a circle through a for loop and plot them after each iteration. I used Matlab for the plot, but I'm sure you could use anything to the same effect.
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>>7927906
Neat.
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>>7927678
Interesting.
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>>7927733
>2016
>not knowing what "until" means.
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Are magnetic fields in physics defined as something akin to vector fields?
I don't know any physics, excuse me.
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>>7929583
Yup.
You can look up some fluid dynamics textbook if you wish to know more.
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