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These are harmonographs, traces of a multi-pendulum drawing machine.

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Made by Ned Batchelder. Read more in the blog post. The source is on GitHub.

These were helpful:

  • Paul Bourke’s Harmonograph page has details and equations.
  • Alan Richmond’s Harmonograph simulators using numpy and matplotlib provided good ideas about numpy and how to randomly generate good starting points.
  • Pablo Garcia’s DrawingMachines.org has links to patents for various mechanical implementations of the idea.

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