Chaos Lab 2.0.5

Chaos Lab offers an engaging exploration of complex systems through interactive visualization. By tilting your device, you can manipulate parameters of intriguing mathematical structures known as strange attractors, adjust the reaction rates within a chemical oscillator simulation, alter the positions of celestial bodies in a three-body gravitational model, and modify the shape of the Julian fractal.

This application enables users to act as both experimenters and creators. It features real-time integration of over 6,000 points for attractors influenced by device motion, more than 7,000 data points for a dynamically morphing fractal, ten "asteroids" illustrating sensitivity to initial conditions within a jittering twin-star system, and a BZ-reaction simulation that responds to both tilt and touch inputs. These elements collectively showcase chaotic phenomena with remarkable immediacy and detail.

Chaos Lab includes four notable attractors: the classical Rössler and Lorenz systems, along with the more recent Thomas and Newton-Leipnik attractors, offering diverse views into chaotic dynamics.

The development of this work was supported in part by grant PHY-0754081 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, through collaboration with the Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group at Drexel University led by Dr. Robert Gilmore, and the Department of Physics at Drexel University.

Note that performance may vary on older iPhone and iPod touch models, potentially resulting in slower operation of some experiments.

Discover the intricate beauty within chaos through this versatile application.