The CSharpCalc showcase



Strange attractors in 3D

Lorenz attractor in 3D

This showcase displays views of two famous chaotic attractors, the Lorenz attractor and the Roessler attractor using two different visualization methods. The left column displays the 3D space curves as point clouds. The right column displays the same space curve as 3D object which also visualizes the tangent plane in each point. more...


Electric multipole fields

Electricla dipole field

Electric fields play an important role in many areas of physics. This showcase visualizes the dipole and the hexapole fields with three different sampling rates and two different sampling lattices. The field strengths were calculated by linear superpositioning. more...


The Mandelbrot set

The Mandelbrot set. High resolution images of the famous fractal.

The Mandelbrot set was named after the mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot. It is well known for its beautiful and self similar structures and the premier example for fractals. This showcase displays six examples in high resolution using the bronze and silver colormaps. more...

Discrete function maps

Henon, Logistic and Gauss bifurcation maps a.k.a Orbit diagrams in high resolution

Three examples of bifurcation diagrams (also known as orbit diagrams) related to important iterated function maps, the Henon map, the logistic map and the Gauss iterated map. These maps are frequently discussed examples for systems exhibiting bifurcation and chaotic behavior. more...


Visual examples of scientific computing



Ising model free energy surface

Free energy surface of the mean-field Ising model

The Ising model can be approximately solved using the mean-field approach. This visual shows the free energy of the mean field approximation as a function of the magnetisation and temperature. The function surface is textured by color coded phase information and by the magnetization curve through the mapping of dynamically rendered textures. more...

The 3D risk matrix

The 3D risk matrix

The concept of risk matrices is being widely used in risk management as well as in the political and economic analysis of regions. This visual shows bleeding edge research results from an ongoing project on the topic. The three-dimensional visualization of political and ecomonic stability helps summarizing and communicating complex analysis results. more...

Parametric functions


Graph plots of a selection of sophisticated parametric equations. The examples shown are mathematically similar to the famous Lissajous curves. All plots display the (periodic) curves for parameter values between 0 and 360 degrees. more...

The 2D Ising model

High resolution spin congfigurations of the 2D Ising model and animations of annealing systems

A visualization of high resolution configurations of the 2D Ising model including two animations of a simulated annealing of the spin model. These animations are not correct physically but they illustrate the transition from the disorder phase to the ordered phase. In a physically correct animation the transition happens very fast owing to the steep ascent of the order parameter as the temperature goes below the critical temperature. more...