Dynamical Systems

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From: Brenda McCaffrey <brendamc@asu.edu>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:43 PM
Subject: Week of June 6, 2016: Dynamical Systems
To: Xin Wei Sha <xinwei.sha@asu.edu>, Christopher Roberts <christopher.m.roberts@asu.edu>, Pavan Turaga <pavan.turaga@asu.edu>
Cc: Todd Ingalls <Todd.Ingalls@asu.edu>

Hi all,

Incredibly active week working hand-in-hand with the team on the iStage to reorganize and clean.  This was a great way to get hands dirty and become engaged.  Here are a few highlights from the week:

• Helped organize and clean the iStage area, learning about
• how the iStage is controlled (video hub, etc.)
• how to clean the dance floor
• how to coil and manage cables
• Tried incorporating the basic Logic Equation with XOSC so I can use hand motion to trip the model into chaos, etc.
• broke the patch (yay!?)
• still working on it!
• Started viewing archived online course:
• "Introduction to Dynamical Systems" (Feldman), Complexity Explorer from the Santa Fe Institute.  https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses

Goals for next week:

• Get the LogicEquation/XOSC patch working and demo it informally among the Synthesis folks on site.  
• Create a little video showing functionality.
• Continue taking Santa Fe course.
• Read Ch. 3 of Sprott.  The chapter is entitled "Nonchaotic multi-dimensional flows."

Thoughts, suggestions, questions?

Thanks,

Brenda