Strangely Attractive
Chaos & strange attractors
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Bridge City Lab LLC
- Size
- 12.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016 Lucas Steuber