Wednesday 25 January 2012

lorenz.py demystified

First, an Ode to matplotlib (for providing lorenz.p)

lorenz.py is a Lorenz attractor implementation example from matplotlib.

Second, an Ode to Chaos Theory (Pioneer)

It is named after chaos theory pioneer, Edward Norton Lorenz, who formulated it in 1963 and is an example of a strange attractor of fractional dimension.

What is an attractor?

A set of physical properties towards which a system tends to evolve, regardless of the initial state.

What maketh an attractor strange?

An attractor is strange if it has a fractal structure.

Leading by Example

Technically, it is an example of a "non-linear dynamic system". A great example of how math gets translated into python.

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