What is "strange attractor"

Usage examples of "strange attractor".

The strange attractor for this computer model resembled a complicated open flower, rotating slowly through the virtual three dimensions of the flat screen.

To be specific, a system of three or more nonlinear differential equations can possess a strange attractor.

A system can exhibit a strange attractor if at least one Lyapunov exponent is positive.

Well, I prefer to think, rather than arguing rationally about it, that the reason the 20th century has been so repeatedly disrupted or enlivened -- depending on your point of view -- by these eruptions of the avant garde, the Bohemians, the beatniks, the hippies, the youth culture of today, is because unconsciously we are actually responding to the presence ahead of us in the future of what I call 'the transcendental object at the end of time' -- a kind of strange attractor, a kind of sociological black hole that reaches out to social processes in the act of evolving and puts a certain spin on them, calls them toward itself, so that history in the 20th century is not a random walk or a trendless fluctuation as we are taught in the academy.

They're too important not to publish: proof that any physical system showing an ultradependence on initial conditions must have a strange attractor buried somewhere in its structure.

It has to do with a feedback resonance in the strange attractor of our metagenome.

But, riding along, she could retrace their course into this particular strange attractor.

The Nightside is a strange attractor for all kinds of traffic, from past, present, and future, and a lot of it tended towards the predatory.

But Yamazaki believed Skinner had simply been too long in proximity to whatever strange attractor had permitted the bridge to become what it had become.

Up above them on the overpass embankment, he can dimly make out phosphorescent shapes-green-jacketed Enforcers orbiting some strange attractor.