Strange Attractors plugin for Blender. This is a fork from https://github.com/mtyka/attractor from original excellent work. This has been maintained by @7bitretro with some corrections from Spirou4D@laposte.net, to update the code for compatibility for more recent versions of Blender.
A Strange Attractor is a concept in chaos theory that describes the behavior of chaotic systems. Unlike a regular attractor, which predicts stable patterns with fixed positions, a strange attractor leads to semi-stable patterns that lack a specific spatial location. One famous example is the Lorenz attractor, which emerged from a mathematical experiment in weather prediction and revealed an unexpected link between weather, chaos, and fractals. These attractors exhibit fascinating properties, such as points on the attractor being arbitrarily far apart at different times, making their behavior quite unpredictable.
Corrected by Spirou4D@laposte.net, 2022-12-09
@Googyflip added TSUCS1 Attracttor, 12/09/2022
Works with Blender version 3.3 and upwards
- Go to Edit -> Preferences
- Select Extensions from the left tabs
- Top right, select the down arrow and then 'Install from Disk...'
- Find and select the file Strange Attractors .ZIP file and choose 'Install from Disk', the extension will now be installed
- In Object mode, press Shift-A to add an object and select Curve > Strange Attractors
- Select that and an attractor of your choice (Lorenz is a good place to start)
- In the object data properties, play around with the settings in Geometry
