Chaotic reflections within a glittery eye

Multiple light reflections in a pyramid of shiny spheres serve as a handy model of chaotic scattering in physical systems.

References:

Sweet, D., E. Ott, and J.A. Yorke. 1999. Topology in chaotic scattering. Nature 399(May 27):315.

Additional information about chaotic scattering is available at http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/Spheres/.

Sources:

David Sweet
University of Maryland
Department of Physics
College Park, MD 20742
Web site: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/~dsweet/research.html

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 22, May 29, 1999, p. 342. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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