The Chaos Cookbook: A Practical Programming Guide

The subject of chaos and fractals has come into popular prominence in the last few years due, in the main, to the fact that the fractals can create stunning graphical images on computers. Indeed, many magazines have carried programs to generate what is probably the hallmark of the field, the Mandelbrot set.Chaos is likely to cause as much change in the way that scientists think of the world as did replacement of Newton's classical mechanics with quantum theory. Despite this, the basic principles are breathtakingly simple, and anyone with a home computer can get involved and conceivably make a contribution to this still very young science.The Chaos Cookbook have been designed to provide food for thought for computer hobbyists, PC users, students and anyone interested in the subject, and will provide a useful starting point before goin g into the more specialist works in the field.The idea of this book is to provide a cookery book for various chaotic systems, and, like all recipes, experimentation will often give new and unexpected results. So, use the programs contained in this book as starting points for your own work.