Chaos Demonstrations

by J. C. Sprott and G. Rowlands

Physics Academic Software is pleased to announce an expanded version of the award-winning Chaos Demonstrations software by J. C. Sprott and G. Rowlands. Version 3 contains twenty-six demonstrations of chaos, fractals, cellular automata and related topics with 136 individual views. Fifty user-controlled parameters permit an almost unlimited variety of examples. Version 3 retains the same simple user interface and colorful displays as previous versions but has many improvements and new features:

New demonstrations of strange attractors, iterated function systems, coupled-map lattices, mixing, and percolation.
Thirteen different one-dimensional maps.
Twenty-one examples of deterministic fractals.
Ability to create automatically an unlimited number of strange attractors and iterated function systems in 2-D and 3-D.
Sixteen 3-D animations using included red/blue glasses.
Fast calculation of the Mandelbrot and Julia sets including pan and zoom options.
A new game of life demonstration which allows 2025 different rules.
Significantly improved calculation speed and smoother operation.
Enhanced "museum mode" operation, additional scripting features for lecture use, additional quiz questions, ability to cycle through parameters forward or backwards, and much more!

Chaos Demonstrations is a DOS program that runs under older versions of Windows or using the freeware DOSBox program for Windows Vista and later. Until 2011 the program was distributed by Physics Academic Software for $70 but is no longer available from them. However, the current version of Chaos Demonstrations without written documentation or technical support can be ordered directly from the author for $35 (US) by check, money order, PayPal, or credit card and will be delivered electronically as a ZIP file usually within 24 hours of receipt of payment.

Note: The current version of the program is 3.2.

Additional Information

To see a list of the demonstrations included with the program, have a look at the menu screen.

To see some sample screen captures from the Chaos Demonstrations program, pay a visit to Sprott's Fractal Gallery or look in the index of chaos images.

You can see the publisher's description of Chaos Demonstrations.

If you have an old version of the program, you might want to look at the revision history.

You can view excerpts from user's and reviewer's comments on Chaos Demonstrations.

You may be interested also in the companion programs, Physics Demonstrations and Chaos Data Analyzer.

You can download a limited demo version (2.0) of Chaos Demonstrations.

J. C. Sprott