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🏀 Bouncing Ball on a Vibrating Table: Period Doubling and Chaos (2D)

A bouncing-ball chaos lab: an exact impact map for a ball on a sinusoidally vibrating table with a live bifurcation diagram, impact map, flight-time return map and the period-doubling route to chaos.

Chaos & Dynamics2DAdvanced60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

⚙ Under the hood

A bouncing-ball chaos lab: an exact impact map for a ball on a sinusoidally vibrating table with a live bifurcation diagram, impact map, flight-time return map and the period-doubling route to chaos.

Bouncing BallPeriod DoublingChaosImpact MapCanvas 2D

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install