The Beauty of Chaos

A demo of a program I wrote. Illustrates beautifully nature's simplicity. Great for philosophising about math and nature etc. or just cool to look at.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• chaos
• strange
• attractor
• attractors
• nature
• math
• complexity
• simplicity
• graphics
• demo
• 3d
• opengl
• c++
• windows
• fractals
• stoned

[heartpeep]

wish I understood anything about this

[IronMAARTEN]

You should check the book on strange attractors by sprott. Its a bit of a read, but the explanation is quite easy.

After a LONG break in the coding of simple math programs, I will very soon be making a shader-based version of this program, multithreaded and all. It should run a hell of a lot faster. Will post here when done.

[nathanwilefrazier]

Video Request: Animation of continuous evolution of the sets into each other set to "The Sky Was Pink" by Nathan Fake.

[IronMAARTEN]

I won't change the title, but i have a massive project using my 3D engine starting very soon, and I'll be sure to make the video you ask.

I won't guarantee the images will be the same though, as these were randomly generated, and at the time, I didn't bother saving all the coefficients.

[CrabHunter]

Nice mathematical shapes. Where is the music from (title/musician)?

[IronMAARTEN]

Empire (Law Rah Collective Remix) by Terrorfakt

[zim01001]

Conclusion: WOw. What kind of mathematics/ideas are used? Have you uploaded the source code?

[StuckInnerRut]

"Maybe nature isn't that complex..." What a fucking arsehole!

[ignisacimpetus]

did you even took the time to understand my comment.

[93tomb]

Thank you for making this video; It was this that inspired my interest in chaos, and inspired me to buy julien sprott's book.

[93tomb]

@ignisacimpetus: you clearly don't understand the nature of chaos. Of course they come from simple math equations; chaos is by its very definition deterministic. The fact that it is unpredictable stems from the nature of iterative functions; in a chaotic system, errors are multiplied exponentially. The fact that it comes from a simple quadratic or cubic equation does not contradict its chaotic nature; rather, therein lies the beauty of chaos.

[ignisacimpetus]

there is nothing chaotic about the the fomalities that have been shown in the video, they can easily conceived with very simple math equations

[hal68g]

It is GPL by the way.

[hal68g]

you should look up the source for the X screensaver called 'Strange' it does realtime animations of strange attractors. could cut down on coding time.

[heartpeep]

hey thanks Ill check it out :D