PID controller tracking a step-changing setpoint. Deterministic, narrowband, strongly correlated.
Standard analysis sees: smooth / autocorrelated; long-range memory (persistent); red spectrum (low-frequency / 1-over-f power); low-complexity (predictable, not noise-like); volatility-clustering (bursty); multifractal; low-dimensional; nonstationary / drifting. The atlas finds no named structure, but the source is distinctively extreme on Persistent Homology:persistence_entropy (-3.7z) — beyond what the standard bank predicts for it.
Persistent Homology:persistence_entropy | -3.7z | bank-miss 1.4σ |
Persistent Homology:total_persistence | -2.6z | bank-miss 1.3σ |
Fisher Information:geodesic_velocity | +2.6z | bank-miss 1.6σ |








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| Nearest neighbor | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| Triple Pendulum | 3.37 | cross-domain |
| FPUT N=16 | 3.73 | cross-domain |
| Magnetic Pendulum (3-Magnet) | 4.07 | cross-domain |
AutoRegressive › AutoRegressive:ar_residual_frac | rank 295/298 | 0.0000 |
Catch24 › Catch24:PD_PeriodicityWang_th0_01 | rank 2/298 | 3564.1000 |
Catch24 › Catch24:SB_BinaryStats_diff_longstretch0 | rank 4/298 | 1160.2000 |
Fractal (Mandelbrot) › Fractal (Mandelbrot):potential_roughness | rank 294/298 | 0.0079 |
Gottwald-Melbourne › Gottwald-Melbourne:angular_spectral_structure | rank 3/298 | 0.9899 |
H² × ℝ (Thurston) › H² × ℝ (Thurston):hyperbolic_step_dispersion | rank 294/298 | 0.0320 |
Persistent Homology › Persistent Homology:total_persistence | rank 294/298 | 1.1717 |
Persistent Homology › Persistent Homology:persistence_entropy | rank 296/298 | 0.2738 |
Visibility Graph › Visibility Graph:nvg_hvg_reach_divergence | rank 5/298 | 0.9949 |
Wasserstein › Wasserstein:recurrence_distance | rank 1/298 | 0.1077 |
Wavelet Cascade › Wavelet Cascade:cascade_coupling | rank 4/298 | 0.8124 |