Strangely Attractive

Six strange attractors, drawn live in 2D and 3D — with the equations and guided lessons behind the chaos.

Strangely Attractive turns the equations of chaos into something you can watch.

Six classic strange attractors — Lorenz, Rössler, Aizawa, Thomas, Halvorsen, and Chen — each drawn live as a single glowing trajectory that never quite repeats. A handful of simple rules, tracing an endlessly intricate shape.

• See it in 3D. Orbit the attractor in a real phase space, or flip to a clean 2D canvas. • Read the math. The exact differential equations behind each system, set beautifully on screen. • Learn by doing. Guided lessons walk through sensitive dependence — the butterfly effect — the Lyapunov exponent, and how Euler and RK4 integration drift apart. • Tune it. Adjust each system's parameters and watch the shape transform. • Home Screen widgets. Pin a favorite attractor where you'll see it.

No account, no tracking, no network. Just the strange beauty of deterministic chaos.

Made by Luke Steuber.