Catching the Essence of Chaos

The movement of the balls in this frantic arcade game is based upon mathematical chaos - the movement of a board down a slope with moguls as discussed in Edward N. Lorenz's book 'The Essence of Chaos'. Solving the set of differential equations when starting with certain initial conditions (speed and direction) leads to chaos - deterministic paths for each ball/board, but with sensitive dependency upon those initial conditions. This means that two boards that start a fraction of a metre apart, will within finite distance take such different paths that their position, speed and direction are no more similar than two boards that started arbitrarily far apart.

Controls 

• Escape - Quit
• Space - Start or Restart Game
• Up Arrow - Move up
• Down Arrow - Move down

There is a key at the bottom of the game screen to tell you what each  power-up does.

Hope you enjoy!

(no music as of yet (sorry))