Experiment

Strange Attractor

Thomas's attractor, seeded for a repeatable structure and drawn in 3D ASCII. Change the seed, the point density and the wobble to explore different flows of the same chaotic system.

Shape

Motion

Seed

The same seed always grows the same point cloud.

Shape

Point density

Wobble

Model

x' = sin(y) − bx, y' = sin(z) − by, z' = sin(x) − bz, with b = 0.208186. Seeded integration, a time-based wobble, 3D rotation, then ASCII depth shading.