Re: Eagle in the Snow, by Wallace Breem


Sayan Bhattacharyya wrote:
> I recently read a few (more or less popular) books on complexity
> and fractals, etc. and was very fascinated, especially by Gary Flake's
> _The Computational Beauty of Nature_, which gives a good overview of
> the field and also goes slightly deeper into the mathematics than
> the usual popular science books.

If you like fractals, you might want to check out:

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/java/attract/attract.htm

"If your browser supports Java, you will see above an endless
succession of fractal images produced by the iterated map
xnew = a + bx + cx2 + dxy + ey + fy2, ynew = x, znew = y,
with a through f chosen randomly over the range -3 to 3. Only
those cases that are bounded and exhibit sensitive dependence
on initial conditions (chaos) are exhibited. The other 99.7% are
discarded. Each iterate is plotted at (x, y) in a hue proportional
to z. Like snowflakes, these strange attractors come in infinite
variety with no two the same. Each one you see is new and
almost certainly has never been seen before."

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