Closed jarmarshall closed 5 years ago
Solved with commit dc654b8a220fb75763396ebd3357f144431b2e5f. Fixed points with purely imaginary eigenvalues (such as in the Lotka-Volterra model) are not drawn anymore.
@tbose1 in the user manual and paper we need to clarify what the hollow red circle denotes as observed in, for example, the oscillatory regime of the Brusellator - can you explain here please? Thanks
The colours of the special points in the field-plots are:
2D systems: red hollow circle = unstable fixed point (real parts of all eigenvalues larger than zero) green full circle = stable fixed point (real parts of all eigenvalues smaller than zero) blue hollow circle = saddle point (one real part of the two eigenvalues larger than zero, and the one smaller than zero)
3D systems: red hollow circle = unstable fixed point (at least one real part of one of the 3 eigenvalues eigenvalue is larger than zero) green full circle = stable fixed point (real parts of all eigenvalues smaller than zero)
The distinction between 2D and 3D systems is because of the clear definition of a saddle point in 2D, whereas in 3D I'm not certain if a saddle point exists as such or can be identified by simply checking the eigenvalues. @jarmarshall please let me know if we only want to have two colours in 2D (like in 3D), i.e. red (or blue) hollow circle and full green circle.
Perfect, that makes sense thanks - for 3d I am not sure either - I think a saddle in 3D can exist but I am not sure if the eigenvalues are sufficient to test for that.
The Lotka-Volterra field plot shows a blue unstable fixed point at the centre of the cycles, whereas for the Brusellator this is red. The reason for the difference is not clear; consider plotting in the same colour, or not plotting one or both?