September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 54m
English

Three-winged Bird: A Chaotic Strange Attractor This is a self-portrait drawn by a chaotic system. The system’s behavior is plotted over millions of iterations. The system appears to be wandering chaotically, always displaying new and different behavior. But over time, a deeper order—a shape—is revealed. This order is inherent to the system. It was always there, but not revealed until its chaotic movements were plotted in multiple dimensions over time.

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Initial fractal
A fractal ...