chaos n effect-acrylic

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The effect of studying Chaos theory for a number of years manifests itself in this series of artwork all of which I have titled,"Strange Attractors". "Chaos & Effect" is a turn of phrase from cause & effect that I coined to describe this series. The science of Chaos is obscure to most of us and still very new and exciting since it allows seemingly unsolvable problems to be described, and sometimes made useful by Strange Attractors. The first strange attractor was identified in 1963 in a serendipitous discovery at MIT on a PDP-8 computer. The Lorenz attractor, an iterated algorithm using three simple partial differential equations to describe, of all things, the weather, showed us the sensitive dependence to initial conditions that spills over into Chaos. I have heard it described as the butterfly effect. When a butterfly flaps its wings in Pittsburgh today, the weather in Philly is changed tomorrow. And that is why weather prediction is still a close guess.
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