Lorenz Attractor

In 1963, meteorologist Edward Lorenz discovered that tiny rounding errors in his weather simulation produced wildly different outcomes — the butterfly effect.

These curves follow three simple equations, yet never repeat. Deterministic chaos: perfectly predictable rules, unpredictable results.

Click to spawn new trajectories. Each starts almost identically, then diverges into its own fate.
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lorenz — deterministic chaos