Animated Poster

An animated poster is different from a simulation in what it's designed to communicate. A simulation typically focuses on reproducing the end output of a process as realistically as possible, showing what happens without necessarily explaining why. An animated poster, on the other hand, is a teaching tool first and a visual second: each frame can be deliberately composed with annotations, symbols, highlight shapes, layered directly onto the motion, guiding students' attention to exactly what matters at each stage of the process. This freedom to combine explanatory elements with movement means an animated poster can pause, emphasize, or simplify parts of a phenomenon that a simulation would otherwise render faithfully but silently.

The curve in each frame in this animation is a direct simulation result, using the Runge-Kutta 4 method.

Pause