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* HIJ FONG !
HIJ FONG !
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** Background: Chaos Mathematics
Background: Chaos Mathematics
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This game is based on chaos mathemeatics.
Back in the 1980's a computer scientist/matmmmatician
This game is based on chaos mathematics.
Back in the 1980's a computer scientist/mathematician
Benort Mandelbrot discovered some maths functions that
behaved in very stange ways. Instead of smoothly changing
they became chaotic and unpredictable.
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This facinated the IBM scientist (who incidentally, was also paid by his employer to
go up in planes and observe another chaotic phenomenem, the random shapes of clouds).
** Natural Chaos: Nature will find a way
Natural Chaos: Nature will find a way
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The film Jurasic park features a chaos mathmetician brought in to
look at the park and decide whether it was safe or not.
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in the 1950's and 60's. At first all the insects died off and the farmers
had far better crop yields (but also poisoned all the fish in the rivers and killed many wild birds).
But, a tiny proportion of the insects, through the natural chaos
of DNA mutation, because resistant. This tiny proportion that could cope with DDT
of DNA mutation, because resistant. This tiny proportion that could cope with DDT, having no competition
with other insects,
grew in population rapidly and after a few years caused worse crop yields than before DDT
was introduced. Anyone interested in this should read "silent spring" by "rachel carson"
writtin in 1962.
written in 1962.
** How to play
How to play
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The program featured here starts with a blank tk graphics window. By clicking the mouse
the chaotic function is revealed. Where in a stable zone the pixel is black.
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Enjoy the chaos!
** For Maths people
For Maths people
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This game secretly rotates and resizes the hidden mandelbrot shape.
It does this using complex numbers which naturally have an angle of rotation