Chaos in reflections

In this applet, you see how a light ray bounces between spherical mirrors. Small changes of the parameters (circle positions, light ray angle, etc.) have a huge global effect on the route the light ray takes.

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Try moving the origin of the ray to the interior of a circle or to the interior of an intersection of circles.