Generator

Where the number says, and where it happens

Where the number says, and where it happens
Where the number says, and where it happens. Fourteen dimensionless groups on one logarithmic axis. The open circle on each row is the value at which the two terms the group compares are equal, which is one by the way the group is formed; the filled mark is the value at which the thing a reader cares about first changes by 1%. The bar between them is the distance the folklore phrase "of order one" hides, and it runs from nothing at all to a factor of 594.

Fourteen dimensionless groups on one logarithmic axis. The open circle on each row is the value at which the two terms the group compares are equal, which is one by the way the group is formed; the filled mark is the value at which the thing a reader cares about first changes by 1%. The bar between them is the distance the folklore phrase "of order one" hides, and it runs from nothing at all to a factor of 594.

10 essays call regime-crossover. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about.

It is also the blast radius. Changing regime-crossover changes every figure listed here at once, and on this site it may change what they assert as well as what they show — which is what has to be rebuilt and looked at before the change is believed.

Where it is called

What each of these essays asks for instead of the defaults is on the regime index, which reads the parameters back out of the finished figures rather than out of the placements.

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