ABC (ADVENTURES IN BIFURCATIONS AND CHAOS) - A PROGRAM FOR STUDYING CHAOS

''Adventures in Bifurcations and Chaos'' (ABC) is a user-friendly prog ram for IBM-compatible PCs which has been designed for exploring bifur cations and chaos in the Chua oscillator paradigm. ABC calculates and draws equilibrium points, eigenvalues, eigenspaces, and trajectories. A two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional dynamics is show n in a state space plot while the corresponding time waveforms are sim ultaneously displaced in a time-domain window. The software includes a n extensive database of sets of initial conditions and parameters whic h produce many dynamical behaviors which have been reported for Chua's oscillator: equilibrium points, bifurcation sequences, periodic ol bi ts, homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits and a plethora of chaotic attra ctors.