Showing posts with label lorenz attractor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lorenz attractor. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 6, 2010


This is probably the most important image in Chaos theory- of the Lorenz attractor. It is an illustration of what many people know as the butterfly effect- the concept that a slight change could result in a hugely different outcome.

The image corresponds to the function in three dimensions of two different variables that differ by a very small amount.