Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos (sprott.physics.wisc.edu)

79 points by dr-neptune 4y ago ↗ HN

10 comments

[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 27.7 ms ] thread

quickthrower2 4y ago ↗

Check out the figures: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/bookfigs/

Take that NFTs!

2b3a51 4y ago ↗

Thanks for posting. Re-writing some of the programs into something like processing might be fun.

https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/PUBS.HTM

Dr Sprott seems to still be publishing.

[dead] thompson1 4y ago ↗

[dead]

sva_ 4y ago ↗

Here's a nice webgl implementation that I found recently:

https://piellardj.github.io/strange-attractors-webgl/

It's fun to explore. Beautiful patterns.

georgia_peach 4y ago ↗

Thank you for sharing this. I remember rendering these 20+ years ago on a 386, & having to wait a few seconds for each set of parameters.

KingOfCoders 4y ago ↗

"and a pdf version (8 MB!)."

8 MB!

ta988 4y ago ↗

Lots of dots!

dr-neptune 4y ago ↗

Pretty excellent considering how many plots there are!

hansword 4y ago ↗

Heads up, this is over 20 years old. Not saying you shouldn't read it, just a lot has happened since then.

pvitz 4y ago ↗

What in particular has happened since then and which textbooks explaining these new techniques or discoveries would you recommend? Last time I studied this, I worked through Ott's book and through the book by Almeida, but both are older, so I am curious what the developments were.