Chaotic Attractors of Driven Oscillators

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1. PositiveDonHopkinsAug 13, 2023

   Also check out Jim "Chaos" Crutchfield's work, and the mesmerizing video feedback he made with his analog video processing computer that he built at the University of California, Santa Cruz for his Ph.D. in physics in 1984.

   Jim Crutchfield

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Crutchfield

   https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/index.html

   Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Kn3djJMCE

   A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1984). Original U-matic video transferred to digital video. 16 minutes.

   See:

   https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/films.htm

   Citation: J. P. Crutchfield, "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback". Physica 10D (1984) 229-245.

   https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/chaos/pubs/stdvf-title.html

   Chaotic Attractors of Driven Oscillators

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq8Vu40Bw1g

   A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1982). Original 16mm transferred to U-matic video and then to digital video. 13 minutes.

   In 2022, Crutchfield and his graduate student Kyle Ray described a way to bring the heat production of conventional circuits below the theoretical limit of Landauer's principle by encoding information not as pulses of charge but in the momentum of moving particles.

   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lsquo-momentum-computing-rsquo-pushes-technology-rsquo-s-thermodynamic-limits/

   While a graduate student, Crutchfield and students from the University of California, Santa Cruz (including Doyne Farmer) built a series of computers that were capable of calculating the motion of a moving roulette ball, predicting which numbers could be excluded from the outcome:

   The Eudaemonic Pie / Newton's Casino: The Bizarre True Story of How a Band of Physicists and Computer Wizards Took on Las Vegas

   https://archive.org/details/eudaemonicpie00bass_0/mode/2up