Lorenz Attractor
Application ID: 16635
A Lorenz attractor can be described by a system of ordinary differential equations: the Lorenz system. In the early 1960s, Lorenz discovered the chaotic behavior of this system for certain parameter values and initial conditions. The solution, when plotted as a phase space, resembles the figure eight.
This example uses the Dormand-Prince explicit method for solving the ODEs and a Point Trajectories plot for visualizing the Lorenz attractor.
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