Amiga Experiments, 1986 → 2026
In the mid-1980s the Amiga was the most capable graphics computer a person could have at home. I used mine to try out ideas: plot an equation and see what it looks like, overlap two patterns and see what appears between them.
Each experiment here starts from what I did then, shows a version of the original, and carries the idea as far as today's computers allow.
1987Equation TablesEquations that feed their own answer back in, plotted on the Amiga, turned out to rediscover the period-doubling cascade and Feigenbaum's number. Rebuilt with live dials, the history of the discovery, and the Mandelbrot set it belongs to.
In preparationMoiréPatterns that appear when two fine patterns overlap.