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- From: aalpern@hamp.hampshire.edu
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- Subject: Re: chaotic modelling
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:32:26 EDT
- Organization: Hampshire College
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- In article <1k00a5INNqrh@sumax.seattleu.edu>, khamer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Little Kenny Hamer) writes:
- > From article <93024.164511WAJ@psuvm.psu.edu>, by WAJ@psuvm.psu.edu:
- >> I have recently begun experimenting with modelling of chaotic systems in
- >> C++. The only system I have had success with is the Lorenz water wheel
- >> (as found in James Gleick's Chaos). Does anybody know of any other fairly
- >> simple physical systems which exhibit chaotic behavior?
- >> (btw, if anybody wants to see the wheel, i could send it)
- >> thanks
- >>
- >> Bill Jester
- >
- > Indeed! Try a duffing oscillator ( a nonlinear spring - mass system)
- >
- > Here it is in coupled first order form (I assume you are using some
- > numerical ODE integrator such as a Runge-Kutta algorithm)
- >
- > dx(1)/dt = x(2)
- >
- > dx(2)/dt = -k*x(2) -a*x(1) -b*[x(1)]^3 + F*cos(w*t)
- >
- > k is the damping parameter, F is the forcing amplitude, w is the forcing
- > frequency, a and b are the spring parameters
- >
- > A period-doubling sequence may ba observed with the parameters:
- >
- > a=0
- > b=1
- > k=0.1
- > w=1
- > with initial conditions x(1) = 1, x(2) = 1
- > let F range from 9.8 to 10
- >
- > These parameters were studied by Ueda
- >
- > Phase plots are interesting for the period doubling sequence, but
- > a first return map is far more useful for the complex regions.
- >
- > Have Fun,
- >
- > -Ken
-
- I've been using chaotic systems as compositional algorithms to generate music
- for several months. Some interesting systems are the Henon system, the
- Henon-Heiles system, the logistic map and it's cube root cousin. I have
- ANSI standard C implementations of each of the systems that I could send you.
- My apologies that I can't do it now, but my code is at home and I'm not. I
- could post it tomorrow though.
- BTW, these systems produce some very interesting music, and they're also
- a lot of fun on their own. The Henon-Heiles system is a simplified model
- of a star's movement within a galactic gravitation field.
-
- Hope it helps, and I'll post some code tomorrow.
- -Adam
- aalpern@hamp.hampshire.edu
-