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"Butterfly Effect," by Nathan Selikoff (www.nathanselikoff.com), 2007
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The "Butterfly Effect", or more technically the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", is the essence of chaos. Besides the fact that this attractor looks like an abstract butterfly, the title of the piece is an homage to Edward Lorenz, a pioneer of chaos theory. It’s a quick jump from this popular understanding of chaos theory to playing with the Lorenz Attractor and learning a bit more about the math and science behind it. Read more at
http://nathanselikoff.com/236/strange-attractors/butterfly-effect. --- Nathan Selikoff
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