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Re: Show HN: Strange Attractors

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Post by kloudignite » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 6:32 PM UTC

I stumbled upon attractors several years ago and ended up making a whole desktop application for rendering animations :)

https://youtu.be/8ttGBReE5gg

Re: Show HN: Strange Attractors

#82

Post by shashanktomar » Wed, Nov 05, 2025, 8:05 PM UTC

kloudignite wrote: post #81

I stumbled upon attractors several years ago and ended up making a whole desktop application for rendering animations :) https://youtu.be/8ttGBReE5gg

This is so cool

Re: Show HN: Strange Attractors

#83

Post by johnwatson11218 » Fri, Nov 07, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC

atombender wrote: post #60

I bought "Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos" (1993) by J. C. Sprott recently, which is a fun book about these kinds of attractors. The whole book can be downloaded online [1] from the author's web site [2]. It's such a typical object of its time. Garishly colored cover, comes with a floppy disk (!) and there are even 3D glasses to view some of the stereoscopic color plates (unfortunately these were missi…

I have a pdf of this book and was using LLM to translate the old code into modern, idiomatic python and it is very cool. I wonder if somebody will re-release it with modern code and tooling? In fact , google Gemini was able to do it on the fly using the posted links.