Birth of a Cubic Julia Exploratory zooming on the cubic Mandelbrot set leads to a nice parameter for the genesis of a Julia. (Subsequently purchased for use in a German business magazine running a special on the internet.)

Buffalo Fractal This somewhat ill-named set is a derivative of the Burning Ship.

Burning Ship Fractal The Burning Ship, a variant on the Mandelbrot Set, has lots of interesting symmetry.

Chaos and Neurodynamics These pages were used for a lecture entitled "Chaos and Neurodynamics" given in the University of California, Santa Cruz campus' Chaos Theory class. The focus is on attractor formation in the olfactory bulb and its consequences on scent recognition. Lecture was given 12th March 1999.

Dynamical Semantics Lecture Notes for a UC Santa Cruz lecture, entitled: A Quadrilogue at the Edge of Logic - or - An Epistemological Improvisation on Chaos and Logic, in the spirit of Douglas Hofstatder. Exploring the Liar's Paradox, the Dynamical Semantics of Patrick Grim and Gary Mar, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, and applications to a postmodern worldview.

Videofeedback These fascinating patterns arise when a video camera is pointed at the screen of a television which is displaying what the video camera is seeing.

Whirlpool/Taffy Fractal An improbable number of serial miscommunications and typographic errors led to the discovery of this interesting system in R x R.

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