An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A deterministic non-linear dynamic system that can produce random looking results. A chaotic system must have a fractal dimension, and exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. See: Fractal Dimension, Lyapunov Exponent, Strange Attractor.

an immortal who was formerly known as God. Many eons ago, Chaos turned his crown over to another immortal (David Hardy). Anxious to return to the throne, Chaos began to upset the Balance, unmaking the universe. He was imprisoned and is now attempting an escape.

Hypothetical first epoch in the history of the Universe, lasting 10" sec: a period about which we cannot yet even speculate.

One of the driving forces behind the universe. Chaos gives possibilities but not definition. See Concordance.

(Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

Chaos is story-based offline 3D RPG with gameplay similar to games like Gothic, Morrowind and classic Ultima and Ultima Underworld series.

Xenosaga series. Not much is known about chaos or his past. His personality is kind and gentle, with a philosophical wisdom and maturity which betrays his true age.

Sailor Moon universe. Chaos sent incarnations in the form of Sailor Moon's major enemies. In the manga, when she fights the final enemy of an arc it is basically an enormous mass of black fourth-dimensional space.

Yudetamago's manga series Kinnikuman Nisei: Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc.

A long time behavior of a dynical system characterized by a great deal of irregularity. Typically, two nearby trajectories will diverge exponentially.

A system with unorganized (not implying random) interactions between its constituents.

Applied to a time-series of population abundance or density, a pattern in which elements of the pattern are never repeated exactly, and where two very similar abundances in the time-series follow trajectories subsequently which diverge from one another exponentially. Nonetheless, the series is not random and fluctuates within definable limits.

An EMBOSS application. Create a chaos game representation plot for a sequence. A box is drawn and an AGCT is drawn at each corner. Starting from the middle, move half way to the corner of the box representing the first base in the sequence and draw a dot. Then for each subsequent base move half way to the corresponding box corner and draw a dot. Finally display the number and percentage values of AGCT bases. The result is an image of a square sprinkled with dots. Areas which are devoid of dots (or heavily covered with dots) indicate short sequence motifs that are unusually infrequent (or frequent). The sequence of such motifs can be deduced by looking to see which quarter of the square the region is in - the letter that this quarter belongs to is the first base of the motif. The quarter is then quartered again and the appropriate base letters are assigned to the corners of the quarter - the eigth part that the region is in gives the second base of the motif. The process continues until you have identified the 1/16th or 1/32nd, etc. of the original square containing the unusual region and you now have the sequence of the motif.

Chaos — The Battle of Wizards is a simple turn based strategy game where the player(s) take the role of wizards who vie with one another to rule the game. The aim of the game is to be the 'last wizard standing' by destroying all other wizards. The game allows for anything between two and eight wizards, any of whom can be human or computer controlled.

Final Fantasy game. He is a relatively large, winged demonic figure, who only appears during the game's climactic end. The character's design is noted to be similar to Diablo's.

Chaos is a controversial 2005 movie about the rape and murder of two teenagers. It stars Kevin Gage and was directed by David De Falco. It is rated NC-17.

Chaos is a 2006 direct-to-video film directed by Tony Giglio starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, and Wesley Snipes.

Chaos (aka Kaosu) is a 1999 Japanese mystery-thriller directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Hisashi Saito.