2007-05-09

pozorvlak: (babylon)
2007-05-09 12:27 pm
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Bifurcation and the logistic mapping

I've been reading Ian Stewart's book Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos, and I got inspired to play about with some of the stuff described therein. You've probably all seen this image before:



The formula that produces it is almost shockingly simple, and yet the behaviour it produces is really quite surprising: yet another reminder that "complicated" is not the same as "deep".

The maths behind the picture - generally accessible )

Cool, eh?