Bifurcation

Garden shears rigged as a chaotic pendulum. The blades' opening and closing feeds back into the swing itself, shifting each arm's mass distribution in real time as it moves.

Bifurcation is the term chaos theory uses for the exact point where a system's trajectory splits onto a new, unrepeatable path. Here that split is literal: every close of the blades is a cut and a bifurcation at once.

1980 frames - 1280x1280 - mp4 - Simulated in Cinema 4D rigid body dynamics - Octane Render