UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Spriing 2014

Homework 02. Th 4/17, due W 4/23 @ 6 pm (via email to abraham@vismath.org)


  • A. Read MS#120, The Aesthetics and Fractal Dimension of Electric Sheep, 2006: PDF.
  • B. Locate the approximate value of the control parameter, c, at the explosive bifurcation in the Dorband family, using this NetLogo model, dorband2.nlogo.

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    HINT:
  • change the slider for "c" and then:
    click "setup" ,
    click "place-particles", place one or two particles, click "place-particles" again,
    then click "go" (twice),
  • you find in the graphics window one or two attractors drawn in colors
  • the bifurcation you are looking for is the value of "c" at which
    two smaller attractors join into one large one
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  • C. Dissect the code of the two simple NetLogo models: That is, explain every line of code briefly by annotating the code within NetLogo, adding comments identified by ";;;; text" and then attach the two files to your email to me.
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    Revised 13 Apr 2014 by Ralph