| In Jurassic Park, Jeff Goldblum describes the butterfly effect to Laura Dern by showing that successive drops of water applied to her knuckles can roll off different sides of her hand. Minute changes in initial conditions (the placement of the water drops, the position of her hand) can lead to different outcomes (down which side of her hand the water drops roll). Of course, the point of the demonstration wold have been lost if in answer to Goldblum's question "Where will second drop of water go," Dern had answered, "Who knows?" instead of "Same place." |
| SLC Punk! contains what Roger Ebert calls "a hilarious stoned explanation of the chaos theory". |
| In Ang Lee's Hulk the book The Fractal Geometry of Nature appears in a scene. Also, at least one of Lee's clever adaptations of comic book interacting panels involves a sequence of zooms revealing similar visual complexity across several distance scales. Was Lee intentionally referencing the scaling behavior of fractals, or was this one of many visual experiments he kept because he liked how it looked? |
| Of course, we are happy to hear of other examples. |
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