Magnetic field lines

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Magnetic field lines

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Sixty tracers crossing the frame on sine paths, each dragging an eighteen-point tail.

Every tracer holds its own phase, frequency and amplitude, and its vertical position is a sine of its horizontal one — so the paths bend around invisible poles rather than running flat. Each keeps the last eighteen points it occupied and strokes them as a polyline, which is what turns sixty moving dots into legible field lines. Horizontal travel wraps past the frame edge with a margin so a tracer never pops in at the boundary. The frame trail is a light ground fill, so the lines smear slightly into their own past.

Magnetic field lines

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