In this project we will dive into the world of "strange attractors". These systems of equations produce chaotic patterns which despite being perfectly predetermined are practically impossible to predict. We will write Python code to search for these patterns and then visualize them.
Contents
00:00 Introduction
04:18 Quadratic map
10:50 Ruling out convergence
15:45 Searching for interesting patterns
19:56 Outro
Video links:
Part 2: • Finding strange attractors Part 2
Sources:
Julien C. Sprott's homepage: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sprot...
Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos: https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fract...
Where I stole a lot of code from: http://paulbourke.net/fractals/lyapunov/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor
Note:
This video includes music from: https://www.bensound.com/