Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos by Julien C. Sprott
Converted to PDF by Robert Coldwell 8/1/2000
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Contents Why This Book Is for You
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Chapter 1: Order and Chaos 1.1 Predictability and Uncertainty 1.2 Bucks and Bugs 1.3 The Butterfly Effect 1.4 The Computer Artist
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Chapter 2: Wiggly Lines 2.1 More Knobs to Twiddle 2.2 Randomness and Pseudorandomness 2.3 What’s in a Name? 2.4 The Computer Search 2.5 Wiggles on Wiggles 2.6 Making Music
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Chapter 3: Pieces of Planes 3.1 Quadratic Map in Two Dimensions 3.2 The Butterfly Effect Revisited 3.3 Searching the Plane 3.4 The Fractal Dimension 3.5 Higher-Order Disorder 3.6 Strange Attractor Planets 3.7 Designer Plaids 3.8 Strange Attractors that Don’t 3.9 A New Dimension in Sound
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Chapter 4: Attractors of Depth 4.1 Projections 4.2 Shadows 4.3 Bands 4.4 Colors 4.5 Characters 4.6 Anaglyphs 4.7 Stereo Pairs | Stereo Pairs 4.8 Slices
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Chapter 5: The Fourth Dimension 5.1 Hyperspace 5.2 Projections 5.3 Other Display Techniques 5.4 Writing on the Wall 5.5 Murals and Movies 5.6 Search and Destroy
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Chapter 6: Fields and Flows 6.1 Beam Me up Scotty! 6.2 Profe