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🦋 Chaos Theory: Twin Pendulums & the Butterfly Effect

Two double pendulums start a hair's breadth apart and are driven by identical physics — watch deterministic chaos tear their paths apart exponentially fast, the real mechanism behind the 'butterfly effect'.

Physics & Mechanics3DAdvanced60 FPS

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Two double pendulums start a hair's breadth apart under identical physics — watch deterministic chaos tear their paths apart exponentially fast, the real mechanism behind the 'butterfly effect'.

Three.jsChaos TheoryNonlinear DynamicsDouble Pendulum

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install