My Attractor vs Chaos Lab

It Moves! It Zooms! It Rotates! It Does Real-Time 3D! Now you can own your very own Strange Attractor! Keep it in your pocket to play with any time you like. My Attractor is a tool to help visualize the Lorenz and Rössler Strange Attractors, not only in 3D Space, but also over time. You may have seen these attractors as static images tracing a single point on the screen or in print. My Attractor gives you a new perspective of these mathematical objects by animating hundreds of points - each following their own independent path through the attractor - giving a better perspective of how they behave. Strange Attractors are part of the field of study known as Chaos Theory. - Grab and rotate the attractor with your finger to view from any perspective. - Autopilot will fly you around the attractor while it is in motion - Shake your device to reset the points to random initial positions. - Customize the attractors by adjusting the parameters to the formulas - View these attractors as hundreds of independent points flying through the attractor or as a single point tracing a path. A video demonstration can be viewed through my website.

Chaos Lab puts the beauty of chaos in your hands. With a tilt of your device, you control the parameters of beautiful mathematical objects called strange attractors, the reaction rates of a chemical oscillator, the position of two stars in a 3-body chaos simulation, and the shape of the Julian fractal. Now you can be an experimentalist and an artist. Using real-time integration of over 6,000 points for the attractors whose parameters are tied to your motion, over 7,000 data points for a fractal which morphs at your command, ten "asteroids" demonstrating chaotic sensitivity to initial conditions in a jittering twin-star system where the stars move with your tilt (can you keep them from escaping?), and a real-time BZ-reaction simulation which you control by both tilt and touch, this is chaos as you've never seen it before. Chaos Lab comes loaded with four of the most stunning attractors in chaos theory. The Rössler and Lorenz attractors are well known, but the Thomas and Newton-Leipnik attractors are relatively new and quite amazing! This work has been supported in part by grant PHY-0754081 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group at Drexel University (directed by Dr. Robert Gilmore), and the Department of Physics at Drexel University. Please note, some of these experiments will run slower on the older models of iPhones and iPod touch devices. Find the beauty in the chaos!