I'm amazed that my beloved CHAOS still runs beautifully on emulators like DOSbox. It was the last programming project where I could completely roll my own interface - and maybe my last really fun one.
Hey Josh! I remember hanging out with you and Laura a long time ago in the Haight! Your beloved CHAOS always got an undeserved bad rap because it was mistakenly confused with KAOS, the international organization of evil bent on world domination, out to get Maxwell Smart and Control! ;)
A film by Jim Crutchfield, Entropy Productions, Santa Cruz (1984). Original U-matic video transferred to digital video. 16 minutes.
James P. Crutchfield.
Center for Nonlinear Studies,
Los Alamos National Laboratories,
Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
ABSTRACT: Video feedback provides a readily available experimental system to study complex spatial and temporal dynamics. This article outlines the use and modeling of video feedback systems. It includes a discussion of video physics and proposed two models for video feedback based on a discrete-time iterated functional equation and on a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation. Color photographs illustrate results from actual video experiments. Digital computer simulations of the models reproduce the basic spatio-temporal dynamics found in the experiments.
1. In the beginning there was feedback ...
James P. Crutchfield. "Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback." Physica 10D 1984: 229-245.
