UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, April 2003

Week 2, Chaos Theory

• The trialogue idea
  TEXT: Metamorphosis video (on reserve)
• Logistics
  • Flash course Th noon
  • Office hour Friday noon
• Stairway to Chaos (1D flows); TEXT: MS#97 (online)
  • Point attractors
  • Point repellors, basins, basin boundaries
  • Fold catastrophe
  • Cusp catastrophe
• Isnard-Zeeman model for an arms race
  TEXT: Zeeman, 1977 (on reserve) [GRAPHICS]