Lab notebook — Classical Chaos
Notes in the Classical Chaos lab notebook:
- Aizawa’s round shell with a hole through it
- Why the Lorenz attractor never closes
- Four Hopalong variants, side by side
- Clifford’s sine–cosine cloud
- Escape time: how the Mandelbrot boundary gets drawn on Classical Chaos
- Watching holes open in the Sierpiński gasket
- Bedhead attractor: the mint map cloud
- Bogdanov Map: a cloud that reshapes with a, b, and μ
- Brusselator: a chemical oscillator as a phase-plane trail
- Fractal Dream: four sines, one folded cloud
- Gumowski–Mira: a soft bump named G
- Hénon map: the classic 1976 crescent
- Gingerbread Man: absolute value, cookie silhouette
- Ikeda map: one knob named a
- Julia sets: one fixed c, a whole plane of starting points
- Calabi–Yau: a Fermat slice as a coral wire
- Schoen’s gyroid: a labyrinth that tiles space
- Barth’s sextic: where did those icosahedral spikes come from?
- Schwarz P: a labyrinth that tiles the cube
- Dini surface: tractrix helicoid with constant negative curvature
- Roman surface: Steiner’s self-crossing RP²
- Enneper surface: a minimal sheet that crosses itself
- Boy surface: the immersion that has to cross
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