Prefaces

The Chaos Hypertextbook™
© 1995-2003 by Glenn Elert
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0.1 What's New in The Chaos Hypertextbook™

31 August 2002

• Split appendix A.2 Software Resources into three parts:OS X, Classic OS, and Relics. The original page had just gotten too big.

7 April 2002

• Calculated the fractal dimension of a natural shape -- the silhouette of a bare tree. The source image is a highly processed digital photograph of an actual tree taken a few days earlier. Beware, it's big (2048 x 1536)!

22 April 2001

• Started adding reviews of OS X applications to appendix A.2 Software Resources.

2 September 2000

• Expanded section 2.1 Strange Attractors. Added extensive information on the Lorenz attractor and how it relates to chaos. Includes lots of new images and one big movie.
• Added a significant number of new programs to appendix A.2 Software Resources (something approaching a dozen).

21 February 2000

• Gathered up all the really large images into an appendix called Eye Candy. Grouped them into themes, gave each image its own page, and linked the pages together in order within the themes. Also added pages with a JavaScript slide show to advance through the images automatically.

28 January 1999

• Moved from <www.columbia.edu/~gae4> to <hypertextbook.com> .
  Changed the name from "Chaos, Fractals, Dimension" to The Chaos Hypertextbook™.
• Made a cool new banner showing a Julia set cascade of the type explained in Chapter 2.3. Created this page and a page with links to this site.

7 June 1998

• Added a series of pages showing a zoom into the Mandelbrot set over 15 orders of magnitude.

19 February 1998

• Discovered the joys of server-side includes (SSI). Now pages have consistent headers and signatures, each controlled by one file. If that doesn't mean anything to you, then forget you just read it.

15 December 1997

• Completely revised and updated all four chapters in html format. Gave this new website the name "Chaos, Fractals, Dimension".

10 January 1996

• Completed the text copy of the Chapter 4.

27 June 1995

• Completed the text copy of the Chapter 3.

12 June 1995

• Completed the text copy of the Chapter 2.

3 May 1995

• Completed the text copy of the Chapter 1.

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