UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Spring 2009

Meeting #3, Thursday 16 April

Agenda

Roll Call, Group A, Group B, and discussion

Lecturettes, three threads:

1. Math (chaos theory and fractal geometry)
   • Flash Applet for the 1D Logistic Family (Review)
   • NetLogo Applet for the 1D Logistic Family (Response diagram)
   • NetLogo Applet for the 2D Dorband Family
   • Dorband video, 3 min
     (3D Response diagram for the 2D Dorband family)
   • Ron Record video, 2 min
     (Animated 2D Response diagram for the 2D Dorband family)
   • Fang audio (Sonification of a Dorband map)
2. Computer programming (computational math and graphics)
   • HTML (with Smultron, Taco, or BBEdit) Review
   • SFTP [HOWTO]
3. Art history (artists using chaos and/or fractals)
   • Art competition, UCSC, 1974 (the Mira Quad family)
   • See also the book:
     Abraham, Gardini, and Mira, 1997: Chaos in Discrete Dynamical Systems
   • Sprott, 1993, the alpha of this thread
   • See also the book:
     Sprott, 1993, Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos

Office hour: here, 11:30 - 11:45 am

Notes and assignments will be posted on this site by 11 pm every Thursday