Lorenz Waterwheel & Attractor

After a few weeks of fiddling with water dynamics, I have finally completed the Lorenz Waterwheel with real-time, simultaneous graphing. For those of you not familiar with chaos theory and attractors, the Lorenz Attractor is a non-periodic, deterministic phase space graph. It never repeats, and never will, but it is not random and will stay within certain bounds. The graph really is beautiful.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VwQhF7tjoQ



Feel free to ask any questions. I'm a bit hesitant to put the source out right away, as I'm a first year programmer and my organization/cleanliness isn't the best. And if anyone else has any ideas for another project that shows mathematical chaos, please do share.

Enjoy!
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Chaotic, beautiful :slight_smile:

Looks awesome!

Very nice!

To be honest I did not understand what you were trying to do at first, now it all makes sense :wink:

Nice work

Hehe, well I’ll have to admit I didn’t necessarily explain it as well as I could have. Glad it turned out well though.