Recursive wave

Recursive waves of depths 1, 2 and 3.

A recursive wave is a self-similar curve in three-dimensional space that is constructed by iteratively adding a helix around the previous curve.

Construction

A recursive wave of depth can be constructed as following:

where

and

Clarification

Each wave at non-zero depth is described by an amplitude , frequency and phase offset .

represents a unit vector that is perpendicular to the previous curve at . An arbitrary vector is chosen to be the fixed "rag" vector.

is a function that rotates a vector around an axis defined by a vector by degrees. In this case it is expressed with quaternions.

See also

Prefix: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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