UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Winter 2013

Homework 01. Assigned Tuesday 1/08

Instructions have been improved, Sat 1/12, 9 pm.

Deadline extended by one week.

Now due M 1/21 @ 9 am (via email to abraham@vismath.org).

A. Read "The paleolithic birth of geometric thinking" [ MS#131 ].

B. Locate two periodic windows in the logistic family.

#1. View NetLogo tutorial #2 [ LIST ]

#2. Download (from the web) and install NetLogo 5.0.3.

#3. Download (from this page) the NetLogo model, logisticresponse.nlogo

** Note: The entire file must be saved to your desktop or some folder.

** Then opening that file with NetLogo will give you a model that works, as in class.

C. Browsing the NetLogo Models Library.

#1. View NetLogo tutorial #1 [ LIST ]

#2. List three favorite NetLogo models from distinct categories of the NetLogo Models Library.