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Jim Crutchfield is DOCTOR CHAOS -- he's got a PhD in Complexity Science!

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

Space-Time Dynamics in Video Feedback

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.

[pdf] https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.PhysicaD1984...

[Plates 1-4] https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.PhysicaD1984...

[Plates 5-7] https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/papers/Crutchfield.PhysicaD1984...

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