The general idea most people have about the butterfly effect is that it signifies small factors that cause huge changes later on (like a butterfly flaps its wings in Peking and you get a tornado in New York). Butterfly Effectīutterfly effect is the most popular concept of chaos theory and perhaps the most misunderstood also.
Also, it was great fun to recreate the wonderful visuals presented in the book using Python and below I cover some of them. It was a revelation to understand concepts like Butterfly Effect, Strange Attractors, Mandelbrot set, etc. I recently read the amazing book Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick and it introduced me to the science and beauty of Chaos. Fractals in Nature (Photo credit: cyclonebill/Wikipedia)
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