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An EZ Chaos Circuit The diagram below gives a chaos-generating circuit that can easily be built as a synthesizer module or quickly breadboarded for experimentation. It has a manually set evolution rate (or, roughly speaking, frequency) and only requires three opamps. Although quite simple, it can produce a wide range of chaotic signals. It is a circuit analog for a standard textbook problem in chaos theory, that of a particle in an oscillating double-well potential. It requires an external driving oscillator for operation, such as a standard synthesizer LFO or VCO. The circuit consists of two identical integrators built around opamps a and b, and a nonlinear circuit built around opamp c, all connected in a loop. The third opamp actually serves triple duty -- in addition to producing a nonlinearity of the form f(x) = x(1-x2), it provides a feedback path for damping of the first integrator as well as a node for injecting the external driving signal. The oscillation rate is set by the ganged pots R2a and R2b. The damping control R6 sets the amount of negative feedback around the first integrator. The chaos pattern generated depends on these controls, as well as on the driving frequency and amplitude. The circuit operates from frequencies below 1 Hz to several hundred Hz. For a wider operating range, switched range capacitors or an OTA-based solution could be used. To understand the connection between the actual circuit and the double-well problem, consider the next figure. The drawing in the upper half is a representation of the circuit in terms of the building blocks discussed in the Up Close section. The factor a represents the signal attenuation by the rate controls. Because of the paths used for the damping and driving signals, each of these is attenuated by R2a. Thus, all integrator inputs are proportional to a, which means that the time variable may be rescaled to eliminate a from the equations. In practice this means that the chaos pattern is independent of