Image Processing

Chaos theory / photography / image transformation

The photograph after chaos-theory processing, its water turned to gold filigree Processed
The original photograph of a swimmer in turquoise water Original

Image Processing Based on Chaos Theory

Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions.

Here every output pixel is a pure function of that same input pixel's color, with no reference to its neighbors. Nothing is invented or hallucinated; the information was always in the file.

Which means the aesthetic is feeding on source's noise. Those gold filigree textures in the water are amplified JPEG blocking and sensor grain, promoted to full-range color by a 20× multiplier.

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Double compound pendulum animation related to chaos theory
Double compound pendulum animation