One of the most fascinating offshoots from chaos theory involves the generation and analysis of equations using Lyapunov exponents. For our purposes, the eye appeal of graphics plots of so-called Lyapunov Space takes center focus.
Lyapunov Space The
Swallow
Jellyfish
Zircon Zity
The names of these images were taken from the original article in Scientific American. (See "Leaping into Lyapunov Space", by A. K. Dewdney, Scientific American, Sept. 1991, pp. 178-180.)
The thumbnails above are linked to the full images they represent. Just click on the thumbnail to see the full image. Each of the full images was generated by an application you can download here. This executable is a very high performance Lyapunov image creator which is able to complete an image in less than 20 seconds on a 500MHz Pentium.