Science as Art quiz
May 15, 2008 - 1:10pm — kilburn
Science can be beautiful in many ways. I'm a big fan of patterns and symmetry, even if not completely symmetric.
Below is a plot, says captain obvious. The first person to tell me what's on each axis wins... something.
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Uncoordinated
Does the lack of axis labels make the plot uncoordinated?
I removed the axis to be
I removed the axis to be mean.
Pun response
Did you just reply to my ventured plot pun with one of your own? I think I get it....
Sorry about the low-quality pun in an above comment; I couldn't think of anything funny to say about "ordinate" and "abscissa" (something with abscess, perhaps), so I went with "coordinate." It wasn't terribly droll, but I had to say something to disguise my utter failure to solve the challenge posed.
dependent variable vs. independent variable
This looks very regular. Is it some sort of Monte Carlo simulation? Also, the big black diagonal stripe looks to me like some sort of saturation (of electronics, maybe). How does one interpret such patterns on graphs (independent of axis labels, in this case)?
It's a plot from theory sort
It's a plot from theory sort of monte carlo... and it's kind of a trick question. I didn't really expect anyone to get it. :) but it looks pretty
it's time to get my t-shirt!
mean energy of particles in solar wind vs number of pirates in the Caribbean sea??
who said anything about a
who said anything about a t-shirt? and no, not pirate related...although that would be cool
dE vs E?
energy loss versus total energy... my physicist's intuition (or the little I know about your thesis experiment) tells me that ;)
How does the plot look if you make it colourfull (some scale for z-axis)?
It actually has little to
It actually has little to nothing to do with my thesis experiment... dE vs E would be curved bands from the upper left to lower right.
If I make it colorful, it pretty much looks the same. I was going to add that one, but the colors were ugly.