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March 2009
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March 2009
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Births and deaths in fluid chaos
by Marianne Freiberger
The movie below shows the fluid flow evolving over time, with elliptic points marked by circles and hyperbolic points marked by crosses. Watch out for the births and deaths of pairs of points.
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