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by photonemitter 2184 days ago
Something I found interesting when running analysis on Ising models; if you do an FFT (2 dimensional) on it, you get what amounts to a wavey star-like blob in the middle (assuming you center the lowest frequencies)

If that blob is a small dot, or even nothing at all; you have a stable system, and if you have a sprawling kind of wavey response-pattern, then your lattice is gone critical.

(Also it looks cool, and it’s quick to diagnose by a glance.)