Chaos and Order - A Mathematic Symphony

"A triumphant marriage of mathematics, art, and music!"

"It's a multi-disciplinary tour de force!"

"A must-see for mathematicians of all ages!"

Does mathematics have a color? Does it have a sound? What if you could look beyond the formulas and equations to see the beauty of the forms they describe?

Media artist Rocco Helmchen and composer Johannes Kraas answer these questions in their latest educational/entertainment fulldome show: Chaos and Order - A Mathematic Symphony.

Chaos and Order takes audiences on a spectacular journey through a fascinating world of sensuous, ever-evolving images, magnificently choreographed to symphonic electronic music.

Structured into four movements — from geometric forms, algorithms, simulations of chaos theory — the show explores breathtaking animated visuals of unprecedented beauty.

Experience the fundamental connection between reality and mathematics, as science and art fuse together in this immersive celebration of the one common language of the universe: mathematics.

Turn your dome into a math visualization laboratory — with Chaos and Order!

Visualizations in Chaos and Order - A Mathematic Symphony
1st Movement - Form Mesh cube Static cube-array Symmetry: Kaleidoscope Voronoi diagram Platonic solids: Hexahedron Tetrahedron Octahedron Icosahedron Dodecahedron Dynamic geodesic sphere-array Dynamic cube-array 5-ring Borromaen knot Geodesic sphere Gyroid minimal surface Spiral surface Clebsch diagonal cubic surface	2nd Movement - Simulation N-body simulation Simulated galaxy-superstructures Rigid-body dynamics Fluid dynamics Boids flocking simulation Boids flight tracks Viscoelastic fluid Thermodynamics Gravity-set simulation Light-gravity simulation N-body simulation: galaxy collision	3rd Movement - Algorithm Belousov-Zhabotinsky cellular automata Evolutionary genetic art Diffusion-limited aggregation (3D) Coupled cellular automata Cycloid Diffusion-limited aggregation (2D) Rabinovich-Fabrikant equation Reaction-diffusion system: Ginzburg-Landau model Reaction-diffusion system: Turing model Lorenz attractor	4th Movement - Fractal Mandelbrot set Secant Fractal Escape Fractal Iterated function system: Recursive fractal flames Mandelbulb Fractal Mandelbox Fractal Newton Fractal Menger sponge

2013 UPDATE: Chaos and Order is now available as a 3-, 4- or 5-movement symphony.

The original 40-minute show contains four movements — Form, Simulation, Algorithm and Fractal. In 2013, a new 29-minute, 3-movement edit was created. The first two movements have basically been combined into one, and the onscreen "movement number" captions were revised accordingly.

And especially for the planetarium theaters, there is now a 51-minute extended version, adding a new meditative movement of slowly rolling stars; the dance of the planets in their orbits; the lines, grids, and wheels of the "classic" planetarium projector — though of course now rendered in fulldome, from DigitalSky 2.

Just choose the version you want and let us know when you order.