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This experiment is in response to ap_prog's question at the forums (thanks Andrew!). I did this very quickly - it was just the first idea that popped into my head - and something that could be done quickly and easily. I'm getting lots of ideas for how to do this better. Also, for some time now, I've had ideas about how to improve xAnimation and hope to try some of those ideas soon.

I've experimented with several different animation sequence objects in the past. Here's one but it was written in 2005 (my,my how time flies!), and so wasn't written to support xAnimation. I have some much better ideas for how to do this now - the problem is that I don't have time to experiment with those ideas. So perhaps this page will be the beginning of that.

25Nov09: Here's a related experiment.

Start Demo

Today, nothing is more important to the future and credibility of science than liberation from the gravity-driven universe of prior theory. A mistaken supposition has not only prevented intelligent and sincere investigators from seeing what would otherwise be obvious, it has bred indifference to possibilities that could have inspired the sciences for decades.

- David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill

To Sketch Is To See

Beautiful astronomical sketches by Bill Greer.

Mathematics starts with counting. It is not reasonable, however, to suggest that early counting was mathematics. Only when some record of the counting was kept and, therefore, some representation of numbers occurred can mathematics be said to have started.

In Babylonia mathematics developed from 2000 BC. Earlier a place value notation number system had evolved over a lengthy period with a number base of 60. It allowed arbitrarily large numbers and fractions to be represented and so proved to be the foundation of more high powered mathematical development.

- J J O'Connor and E F Robertson