Chaos in Action consists of a number of self contained software packages. There is also a screensaver available for download here . Recommended Reading A great book, suitable for beginners, is Chaos Under Control , by David Peak and Michael Frame. The book was the inspiration for much of the programs I have written on chaos.
Water flows into the buckets attached to an ideal wheel.
By modifiying parameters of the simulation, it is possible to make the wheel rotate chaotically even making it stop and rotate in the opposite direction. IFS stands for Iterated Function Systems. By selecting a small number of transformation rules, assigning a probabilty to each and transforming a single coordinate randomly according to each probablity it is possible to create self similar images. The image left is known as a koch curve. Any attempt to measure it's length is fruitless as it is has no straight sections.