MetaFilter posts tagged with waves

Riding the Waves

nakedcodemonkey — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:14:25 -0800

Riding the Waves of interest in MVC web frameworks such as Rails, Django, TurboGears, and Cake, comes the latest entrant: Ruby Waves. Interesting features include request lambdas, hot patchable, nestable templates, app reusability, and decoupled controller/view. Is the proliferation of MVC projects helping to push innovation forward? Or pointlessly reinventing the wheel? (via RubyInside)

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts

XMLicious — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:21:29 -0800

Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts (pdf), a recently-updated paper on the Cornell arXiv peer-review site. By Hrvoje Nikolić of the Rudjer Bošković Institute in Croatia. Note: the presence of a paper on arXiv does not necessarily mean it has been reviewed and is not equivalent to having been published in a journal.

OooohEeeeehOoooh

Lord_Pall — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:44:27 -0800

September 30th, 2002, scientists intercepted a 10 minute radio burst from the galactic center, 26,000 Light Years away. 77 minutes passed, and it repeated. And again. The signal repeated 5 times that evening.

Some think those signals are weird mysterious. Others think they are interesting mysterious.

Moses would be impressed!

lenny70 — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:34:34 -0800

You can drift, you can dream, even ~~walk~~ write on water
Researchers at Akishima Laboratories have developed a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of water. Here is a PDF file about the project (I think it is in Japanese, but it has pretty pictures!)

Kiteboarding

jason's_planet — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:00:54 -0800

Kiteboarding is an argument for the existence of God. And even if, like me, you don’t buy that particular argument, it’s still insanely cool. Armed with a kite, a harness and a board, you can show up your local skate rats (soundtrack includes language that is Not, strictly speaking, Safe For Work), fly over snow, ride waves and even indulge yourself over plain-vanilla dry land. Be careful, though. If angered, the wind could easily take you into orbit.

Ripple Tank Simulation

MetaMonkey — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:41:47 -0800

Ripple Tank Simulation is a delightful, mesmeric java applet simulation of a ripple tank. It demonstrates two dimensional wave phenomena such as interference, diffraction, refraction, resonance, phased arrays, and the Doppler effect (do try the 3D view). From Paul Falstad's fantastic collection of Math, Physics and Engineering Applets.

Java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering

Gyan — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:16:07 -0800

Java applets to help visualize various concepts in math, physics, and engineering

Making Waves

Gyan — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:49:51 -0800

Resonata - A Wave Machine [Java]

Surf's Up

Crackerbelly — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 10:29:27 -0800

Surf's Up! While many of us in North America are battling freezing rain, sleet, snow, and other sub-zero madness, the folks on the north shore of Oahu are enjoying their own December weather phenomenon.

Faraday Wave video

stbalbach — Wed, 19 May 2004 18:14:51 -0800

This cornstarch, it vibrates. (wmv 4MB)