BIF would simply produce pretty pictures, not necessarily with understanding, without this correlation. It may be necessary to spend extra time to relate these two representations of the same data. The real fun with BIF comes with zooming . The concept should be easily understood. It can be compared to a camera's zoom lens or a magnifying glass.
Most students are probably already familiar with the term.
Going back to our earlier discussion about population, bifurcation is exactly what happens when we examine a person's genealogy - the family tree splits with each generation of ancestry. It is also conceivable that in generations past branches of the family tree had been crossed, producing a chaotic intermixing of ancestry much like the chaos region of the bifurcation diagrams. Chaos itself comprises an entire field of study, and is applied to the analysis of many phenomena, such as fluid flow, aerodynamics, and weather. It is a characteristic we will see again and again in further fractal studies. I know the atomic model has changed since I was a kid, but this traditional view of the atom is still held by many, and it is the first picture that comes to my mind when I think of an atom.