An almost-Fuchsian manifold is a quasi-Fuchsian manifold which contains an incompressible minimal surface with principal curvatures less than one everywhere.  The topological entropy of the geodesic flow on the minimal surface defines a function on the space of almost-Fuchsian manifolds.  We will explain how this function can be used to give a metric on Fuchsian space.  Furthermore, we will also discuss the relationship between this entropy and the Hausdorff dimension of limit sets of quasi-Fuchsian groups.