Note the marvelous fractal structure at the basin boundaries.
The fractal structure of the distributions has been studied using rescaled range analysis.
When is outside this disk, the fixed points are locally unstable, however the map still exhibits a fractal structure in the sense of Julia set.
A more recent interpretation is that sway has a fractal structure.
This value is not a whole number, indicative of the fractal structure inherent in a strange attractor.
Its border would show an astronomical number of different fractal structures.
An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure.
I suggest that what gives the book its socko effect is its fractal structure.
The question of what happens when waves interact with fractal structures has been studied by many researchers.
Similar fractal structures form in caves, where the mineralogy is different but the general dynamics the same.