Interactive Experiments   Overarching Framework E42: Intro to Discrete Dynamic Systems Papers and Presentations Interactive Experiments Emergent Hierarchies in Perception Dynamic Form Perception Symmetry Groups in Adaptive Landscapes       Online Discrete Dynamic Systems Research Lab How to Represent a Dynamic Universe Abstracting Principles and Ideas from Experience Other Work by Tom Malloy       Related Web Pages of Theoretical Interest Bibliography for the working papers on this site   Interactive Experiments with Dynamic Systems All links in this table are Java Applets [ get java plugin ] In a complex dynamic scene with many moving sub-patterns, how do we simultaneously extract multiple different sub-patterns? EXEMPLAR 1: Perceiving Fundamental Frequences of a System through Apparent Motion: Cycles & sub-Cycles [ Applet ] This example has Good Supportive Text with Images highlighting cycles and subcycles a dynamic system. Demonstrates how the human perceptual capabilities that result in the illusion of Apparent Motion might could act as a mechanism for extracting the cycles and sub-cycles of a complex dynamic system. (Onlinedata archive) Perceiving Dynamic Patterns through Apparent Motion: Basins & Sub-basins [ Applet ] A second example with good text and 3 experiments EXEMPLAR 2: Perceiving Emergent Dynamics [ Applet ] This applet shows how our apparent motion neurology allows us to perceive general emergent patterns in a complex dynamic scene (when these emergent patterns are technically not a basin or sub-basin of the system). Good supporting text and several experiments. EXEMPLAR 3: Layered Emergent Dynamics [ Applet ] This applet shows complex abstract patterns can flow across each other in different directions and at different rates. It lays a foundation for how the human visual system may extract coherent patterns that can be static or moving. If input from the universe is construed as a dynamic system, how do different modes and strategies for representing this input impact our ability to perceive complex pattern? Twinkling Nodes & Sound Representations for a dynamic system with long tributaries [ Applet ] How do tributaries effect our ability to perceive dynamic pattern? Historical Trace [ HTML ]