C-Tech2 2009
The Butterfly Effect -- Exploring Chaos and Fractals Using Java
The following Java applets are intended to illustrate interesting aspects of fractal geometries, the intricate patterns that emerge when large systems are driven from equilibrium, and the chaotic dynamics that are common in many natural systems.
A copy of the presentation given can be found here.
The challenge questions can be found here.
The von Koch Curve
You can use the mouse to drag and zoom into an area of particular interest. To return back to the original view press shift-r. This curve has some interesting features, use the applet to explore it further.
This program was written by John Bowen as part of an undegraduate research project in my group. Here is the source code. This applet uses the Java Graph Class Library developed by Leigh Brookshaw.
The Game of Life
This applet was developed by Edwin Martin, more information including the source code is available here.
For those interested:
The programs on this page are written as java applets. A great resource for learning more about java
are the free tutorials written by Sun which are available here.
The presentation was written using Latex and the Beamer presentation class. Latex is a free
typsetting program that is very powerful and flexible. More information can be found
here. The Beamer class is a latex
package that is very useful for making presentations and more infomation can be found
here. Here are the latex files for the
presentation and the bibliography.
This work is a continuing effort and new applets will be added as needed, please send me any comments or suggestions.
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July 6, 2009 Mark Paul