In mathematics, a chaotic map is a map (an evolution function) that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior. Maps may be parameterized by a discrete-time or a continuous-time parameter. Discrete maps usually take the form of iterated functions. Chaotic maps often occur in the study of dynamical systems. Chaotic maps and iterated functions often generate fractals. Some fractals are studied as objects themselves, as sets rather than in terms of the maps that generate them. This is often because there are several different iterative procedures that generate the same fractal. See also Universality (dynamical systems).
List of chaotic maps
List of fractals
Cantor set de Rham curve Gravity set, or Mitchell-Green gravity set Julia set - derived from complex quadratic map Koch snowflake - special case of de Rham curve Lyapunov fractal Mandelbrot set - derived from complex quadratic map Menger sponge Newton fractal Nova fractal - derived from Newton fractal Quaternionic fractal - three dimensional complex quadratic map Sierpinski carpet Sierpinski triangle
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