Chaos and Fractals: A Computer Graphical Journey

Chaos and Fractals: A Computer Graphical Journey
A 10 Year Compilation of Advanced Research
Edited by Clifford A. Pickover
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Overview:

These days computer-generated fractal patterns are everywhere, from squiggly designs on computer art posters to illustrations in the most serious of physics journals. Interest continues to grow among scientists and, rather surprisingly, artists and designers. This book provides visual demonstrations of complicated and beautiful structures that can arise in systems, based on simple rules. It also presents papers on seemingly paradoxical combinations of randomness and structure in systems of mathematical, physical, biological, electrical, chemical, and artistic interest. Topics include: iteration, cellular automata, bifurcation maps, fractals, dynamical systems, patterns of nature created through simple rules, and aesthetic graphics drawn from the universe of mathematics and art. Chaos and Fractals is divided into six parts: Geometry and Nature; Attractors; Cellular Automata, Gaskets, and Koch Curves; Mandelbrot, Julia and Other Complex Maps; Iterated Function Systems; and Computer Art. Additionally, information on the latest practical applications of fractals and on the use of fractals in commercial products such as the antennas and reaction vessels is presented. In short, fractals are increasingly finding application in practical products where computer graphics and simulations are integral to the design process. Each of the six sections has an introduction by the editor including the latest research, references, and updates in the field. This book is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, a comprehensive index, and the many computer program examples encourage reader involvement.

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Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Geometry and Nature
Chaos game visualization of sequences (H. J. Jeffrey). Tumor growth simulation (W. Düchting). Computer simulation of the morphology and development of several species of seaweed using Lindenmayer systems (J.D. Corbit, D.J. Garbary). Generating fractals from Voronoi diagrams (K.W. Shirriff). Circles with kiss: a note on osculatory packing (C.A. Pickover). Graphical identification of spatio-temporal chaos (A.V. Holden, A.V. Panfilov). Manifolds and control of chaotic systems (H. Qammari, A. Venkatesan). A vacation on Mars - an artist's journey in a computer graphics world (C.A. Pickover).

Part II. Attractors
Automatic Generation of strange attractors (J.C. Sprott). Attractors with dueling symmetry (C.A. Reiter). A new feature in Hénon's map (M. Michelitsch, O.E. Rössler). Lyapunov exponents of the logistics map with periodic forcing (M. Markus, B. Hess). Toward a better understanding of fractality in nature (M. Klein, O.E. Rössler, J. Parisi, J. Peinke, G. Baier, C. Khalert, J.L. Hudson). On the dynamics of real polynomials on the plane (A.O. Lopes). Phase portraits for parametrically excited pendula: an exercise in multidimensional data visualisation (D. Pottinger, S. Todd, I. Rodrigues, T. Mullin, A. Skeldon). Self-reference and paradox in two and three dimensions (P. Grim, G. Mar, M. Neiger, P. St. Denis). Visualizing the effects of filtering chaotic signals (M.T. Rosenstein, J.J. Collins). Oscillating iteration paths in neural networks learning (R. Rojas). The crying of fractal batrachion 1,489 (C.A. Pickover). Evaluating pseudo-random number generators (R.L. Bowman).

Part III. Cellular Automata, Gaskets, and Koch Curves
Sensitivity in cellular automata: some examples (M. Frame). One tub, eight blocks, twelve blinkers and other views of life (J.E. Pulsifer, C.A. Reiter). Scouts in hyperspace (S. Shepard, A. Simoson). Sierpinski fractals and GCDs (C.A. Reiter). Complex patterns generated by next nearest neighbors cellular automata (W. Li). On the congruence of binary patterns generated by modular arithmetic on a parent array (A. Lakhtakia, D.E. Passoja). A simple gasket derived from prime numbers (A. Lakhtakia). Discrete approximation of the Koch curve (S.C. Hwang, H.S. Yang). Visualizing Cantor cheese construction (C.A. Pickover, K. McCarty). Notes on Pascal's pyramid for personal computer users (J. Nugent). Patterns generated by logical operators (M. Szyszkowicz).

Part IV. Mandelbrot, Julia and Other Complex Maps
A tutorial on efficient computer graphics representations of the Mandelbrot set (R. Rojas). Julia sets in the quaternions (A. Norton). Self-similar sequences and chaos from Gauss sums (A. Lakhtakia, R. Messier). Color maps generated by "trigonometric iteration loops" (M. Michelitsch). A note on Halley's method (R. Reeves). A note on some internal structures of the Mandelbrot set (K. J. Hopper ). The method of secants (J.D. Jones). A generalized Mandelbrot set and the role of critical points (M. Frame, J. Robertson). A new scaling along the spike of the Mandelbrot set (M. Frame, A.G. Davis Philip, A. Robocci). Further insights into Halley's method (R. Reeves). Visualizing the dynamics of the Rayleigh quotient iteration (C.A. Reiter). The "burning ship" and its quasi-Julia sets (M. Michelitsch, O. E. Rössler). Field lines in Mandelbrot set (K.W. Phillip). A tutorial on the visualization of forward orbits associated with Siegel disks in the quadratic Julia sets (G.T. Miller). Image generation by Blaschke products in the unit disk (H.S. Kim, H.O. Kim, S.Y. Shin). An investigation of fractals generated by z 1/z -n + c (K.W. Shirriff). Infinite-corner-point fractal image generation by Newton's method for solving exp[-a ( + z)( - z)] -1 = 0 (Y.B. Kim, H.S. Kim, H.O. Kim, S.Y. Shin). Chaos and elliptic curves (S.D. Balkin, E.L. Golebiewski, C.A. Reiter). Newton's methods for multiple roots (W.J. Gilbert). Warped midgets in the Mandelbrot set (A.G. Davis Philip, M. Frame, A. Robucci). Automatic generation of general quadratic map basins (J.C. Sprott, C.A. Pickover).

Part V. Iterated Function Systems. Some nonlinear iterated function systems (M. Frame, M. Angers). Balancing order and chaos in image generation (K. Culik II, S. Dube). Estimating the spatial extent of attractors of iterated function systems (D. Canright). Automatic generation of iterated function systems (J.C. Sprott). Modelling and rendering of nonlinear iterated function systems (E. Gröller).

Part VI. Computer Art
Automatic parallel generation of aeolian fractals on the IBM power visualization system (C.A. Pickover). Julia set art and fractals in the complex plane (I.D. Entwistle). Methods of displaying the behaviour of the mapping z z2 + (I.D. Entwistle). AUTUMN - a recipe for artistic fractal images (J.E. Loyless). Biomorphic mitosis (D. Stuedell). Computer art representing the behavior of the Newton-Raphson method (D.J. Walter). Systemized serendipity for producing computer art (D. Walter). Computer art from Newton's, Secant, and Richardson's methods (D. Walter). Author index. Subject index. 

Terms indexed in Chaos and Fractals

(This is meant to give a clearer indication of topics covered.)

Aeolian fractals Amalgamated Research, vii Apollonian packing, 27 Art, 341, 413-445 Artificial intelligence, 53, 61, 341, 415 Attractors, 49-142 Barnsley, M., 349 Basins of attraction, 79, 341 Batrachions, 127 Bifurcation, 103 Biology, 5, 15, 33, 435 Biomorphs, 435 Blaschke products, 301 Bubbles, 31 Cancer growth, 15 Cantor cheese, 201 Cardiac tissues, 33 Cellular automata, 145-218 Chaos game, 5 Chaos, control of, 35 Chaos, filtering 115 Chaotic forcing, 79 Chemistry, 35 Circle packing, 27 Clarke, A. 222 Complex maps, 221-345 Correlation dimension, 391 Critical points, 263, 321 Diffusion limited aggregation, viii DNA, 5 Dueling symmetry, 61 Eigenvalue estimation, 283 Elliptic curves, 321 Epsilon cross, 255 Field lines, 291 Filtering, 115 Fischer, Y., 349 Fractal Antenna Systems, vii Fractal fiberoptics, vii Fractal Loop, viii Fractals, practical, vii Fractals, terrain, 41 Fractint, viii Games, 161 Gaskets, 145-218 Gauss sums, 247 Genetic sequences, 5 Goose fractal, vi Halley's method, 253, 281 Henon's map, 69 Integer sequences, 127, 247 Iterated function systems, 349-410 Julia sets, 221-345 Koch curves, 145-218 L-systems, 19 Leaf patterns, 23 Lebesgue measure, 93 Life, game of, 155 Logic, 111 Logical operators, 217 Logistic map, 73 Lyapunov exponent, 50, 53, 73, 391 Mandelbrot set, scaling, 269 Mandelbrot sets, 221-345 Mandelbrot, B., vi Mathematica, 133 Menger sponges, 169 Midgets, 269, 331 Moon, F., vii Mountains, 41 Multidimensionality, 103 Mutually recursive function systems, 361 Nature, 3-45, 79 Neural networks, 121 Newton's method, 313, 327, 437, 439, 441 Noise spheres, 137 Oscillations, 35 Osculatory packing, 27 Paradoxes, 111 Pascal's triangle, 207 Pendula, 103 Phase portraits, 103 Phase transition, 93 Plants, 19, 23 Poincare cross-section, 108 Practical fractals, vii Prime numbers, 191 Quaternions, 225 Random numbers, 133 Rayleigh quotient iteration, 283 Repellers, 93 Root-finding, 253, 259, 283, 313, 327, 437, 439, 441 Seaweed, 19 Secant method, 259, 439, 441 Self-similarity, 79 Siegel disks, 297 Sierpinski gaskets, see Gaskets Solenoid, 201 Spatio-temporal chaos, 33 Terrain, 41 Tumor growth, 15 Tutorials, 225, 297 Voronoi diagrams, 23 

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