chris-greening / double-pendula

Modeling a double pendulum using Python and Lagrangian mechanics

Double pendula

"It simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems. The shorthand is the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine." - Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

300 double pendulums with nearly identical (but not quite) start conditions

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Blog Posts
• Contributing
• Dependencies
• License
• Support

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💻 Installation

Clone this repository locally to your machine:

git clone https://github.com/chris-greening/double-pendula.git

and install required dependencies with:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Minimum Python version

This code requires Python 3.5 or higher.

📰 Blog Posts

Check out blog post(s) on DEV for ideas and tutorials!

• Visualizing the Butterfly Effect with Python

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🙏 Contributing

All contributions, bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements, enhancements, and ideas are welcome!

Feel free to open an Issue, check out existing Issues, or start a discussion.

Beginners to open source are highly encouraged to participate and ask questions if you're unsure what to do/where to start ❤️

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🕸️ Dependencies

• pandas
• numpy
• matplotlib
• scipy

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💳 License

This code operates under the MIT license.

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❔ Support

Reach out to me if you want to connect or have any questions and I will do my best to get back to you

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  • [email protected]
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  • @ChrisGreening
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