The Three Winged Bird illustrated in our logo, by kind permission of the Authors and Copyright holders, Prof. Benno Hess and Dr. M.
Markus of the Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg
Professor Hess describes the fractal figure in the context of self-organising
structures in the following way:
“… these structures must be of dynamic and evolutionary quality. Perhaps, it is usually overlooked,
that these dynamics must be composed of deterministic forces - thus the usual commend exercises - as well as fluctuations which result
from an appreciable degree of freedom in substructures etc.-.
The three winged bird, which we produced in a general study of
mechanisms which determine the nonlinear dynamic of complex systems, especially with respect to self-organizing structures in space
and time. The bird is the result of a repetition of a formula composed of a quotient of simple polynomials, which yields points in
a map, which wander around in a non-predictable fashion, until a large number of points finally give rise to ordered structures as
given in the bird.
It is a model of how complex structures evolve in complex processes, not in the least in Biology.
We
have studied quite a number of different approaches also with rather complex recurrences, and published the results over the years.”
Prof.
Dr. Benno Hess
Max Planck Institut f. Medizinische Forschung
Jahnstr.29, D-69120 Heidelberg
Tel: +49-6221-486-341
