Bruno Postle
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Prepares the repo for pushing to a remote forge: adds a README describing the project, the full GPLv3 license text, and a .gitignore for local build/scratch artifacts (__pycache__, Blender autosaves). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Catastrophe
3D-printable STL models of surfaces from catastrophe theory — a branch of mathematics studying how small changes in parameters can cause sudden, discontinuous changes in a system's equilibrium state.
This is a personal, exploratory project rather than a polished library — code and comments are kept up to date, but no API stability or reuse outside this repo should be assumed.
Butterfly catastrophe
butterfly_catastrophe.py generates butterfly_catastrophe.stl, a height-field mesh of the equilibrium manifold for the potential
V(x) = x^6 + a*x^4 + c*x^2 + d*x (a = -3 fixed, b = 0)
Equilibria satisfy dV/dx = 0, which rearranges into a single-valued height field d(x, c), avoiding root-finding or branch-tracking across fold lines. See CLAUDE.md for the full derivation, tuning parameters, and printing notes.
Usage
pip install numpy
python butterfly_catastrophe.py
Output: butterfly_catastrophe.stl, ready to slice and print.
License
GPLv3-or-later — see LICENSE.