This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)

Animations, coding, interactives in this video by Jonny Hyman James Gleick, Chaos Steven Strogatz, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Robert Shaw, The Dripping Faucet as a Model Chaotic System Crevier DW, Meister M. Synchronous period-doubling in flicker vision of salamander and man. J Neurophysiol. 1998 Apr;79(4):1869-78. Bing Jia, Huaguang Gu, Li Li, Xiaoyan Zhao. Dynamics of period-doubling bifurcation to chaos in the spontaneous neural firing patterns Cogn Neurodyn (2012) 6:89–106 DOI 10.1007/s11571-011-9184-7

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