%0 Journal Article %T Symbolic Toolkit for Chaos Explorations %A Tingli Xing %A Jeremy Wojcik %A Roberto Barrio %A Andrey Shilnikov %J Physics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X New computational technique based on the symbolic description utilizing kneading invariants is used for explorations of parametric chaos in a two exemplary systems with the Lorenz attractor: a normal model from mathematics, and a laser model from nonlinear optics. The technique allows for uncovering the stunning complexity and universality of the patterns discovered in the bi-parametric scans of the given models and detects their organizing centers -- codimension-two T-points and separating saddles. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4898v1