Eu não encontrei nada do próprio Crichton, mas a teoria aqui faz sentido para mim.
Each chapter (or iteration as the book called it) was found to have a seemingly meaningless illustration of some lines and squares adjunct to a quotation from one the book’s characters.
The First Chapter/First Iteration contained the above image with the quote: “At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.” Ian Malcolm.
With each subsequent chapter, the quotations begin to resemble the events in the story – the idea of unpredictability; chaos theory – and the illustrations become more elaborate – and eerily reptilian.
Então, basicamente, trata-se de sistemas simples que rapidamente se tornam mais complexos à medida que os analisamos mais de perto. No caso do parque, mais complexo de forma mortal.