Elastica

Has anybody made an attempt to write a GHX-descirption of an elastica, yet?
If you are not familiar with it, here is a JAVA applet developed at the TU Berlin.

Tags: curve, elastica, implicit, math

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Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on October 19, 2009 at 5:51pm

Yes, I've made attempts. No satisfying results yet though.

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Permalink Reply by Moritz Fleischmann on October 21, 2009 at 7:19am

did you post any of these attempts anywhere? Which Elastica-model were you trying to embed?
Maybe I can help..

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Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on October 22, 2009 at 2:40pm

My attempt was simply to create a 2d elastica curve. Nothing fancy and with little interaction. The file is from December 2008. The VB script is a little messy, I hope you can make some sense of it. It's not a very mathematical solution either - the script simply rotates a line using a varying centre point. This generates a bunch of points and then a polyline is created.

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