Abstract

This article proposes that scientists and artists consider working together to explore this visual side of chaos theory. For the scientist, it is an opportunity to investigate the graphical aspects of chaos theory with someone trained in visual aesthetics. For the artist, chaos theory may provide a new avenue of artistic expression where abstract images emerge from models of the natural world. For example, they might work together to see how the shape of a strange attractor evolves as model parameters are changed. For the scientist, this might reveal some insight into the properties of the modeled system. For the artist, this might result in a visually stunning animation. Other examples are easy to imagine. Both sides could benefit from such a collaboration.