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THE LORENZ ATTRACTOR (on facing page). This magical image, resembling an owl’s mask or butterfly’s wings, became an emblem for the early explorers of chaos. It revealed the fine structure hidden within a disorderly stream of data. Traditionally, the changing values of any one variable could be displayed in a so-called time series (top). To show the changing relationships among three variables required a different technique. At any instant in time, the three variables fix the location of a point in three-dimensional space; as the system changes, the motion of the point represents the ...more
Chaos: Making a New Science
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