Graphing the Ungraphable (Or: Making Molehills out of Mountains)
As we have discussed in class, we often run into functions that require more dimensions to graph than we actually have available to us. This is really an even bigger problem on a computer, since we are technically limited to 2 dimensions instead of our usual 3. (Well, as you have seen above, we fake our way around that...) We can use different tricks to visualize these sorts of functions anyway. Here are a few techniques that you could use to display information in different ways; by combining these (along with other things you may think of), we can often work around these limitations. One warning: Just because an idea is cool doesn't mean it's a good idea. The method we choose depends to a large extent on what we are trying to model.
Animation - Bending time to your will
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