Sean Sullivan's Wave Art

These images were created with a computer program that I wrote during my junior year at Amherst College, during a weekend of rebellion from my physics course on E&M. I find wave patterns fascinating, and wanted to visualize how waves interacted. Numerical solutions were too dry and mind-numbing, so I started playing with my computer to see if I could reproduce the flavor of the images that were developing in my mind. This is the result.

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