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The mathrec package includes several X11 clients written by Dr. Ronald
Joe Record who holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of
California. Programs in the mathrec package include :
- endo - calculate and display iteratated endomorphisms of the plane
- lyap - calculate and display Lyapunov exponents of the iterated
logistic map
- stars - calculate and display a star field with controls
- coral - calculate and display a coral growth simulation
- gasket - calculate and display Serpinski gaskets
- hop - calculate and display iterated parametric equations
- julia - calculate and display Julia sets
- mandel - calculate and display Mandelbrot sets (clicking the middle
mouse button on a point in the Mandelbrot set will generate a window with the
corresponding Julia set)
- lds - calculate and display Lattice Dynamical Systems (also known
as coupled map lattices)
- madness - calculate and display various kinds of curves and stuff
- splines - calculate and display spline curves
- spore - calculate and display simulated spore growth
- xtopo - calculate and display simulated topographic maps
- xwator - calculate and display a simulation of fish and shark
population dynamics over time
Most of the programs in the mathrec package work best with an 8 bit
PseudoColor visual (i.e. 256 colors in a colormap). However, they can
be run with a TrueColor visual (some features will not be present).
Many interesting sample runs are provided as shell scripts in subdirectories
in /usr/local/mathrec. For instance, sample runs of the lyap program with
preset parameters are in the directory /usr/local/mathrec/lyap and those
for the endo program are in /usr/local/mathrec/endo.
For additional details on these programs, see
the mathrec HTML documents.
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