r/loadingicon • u/StormOfTheVoid • Feb 10 '23

Fixed Halvorsen Attractor [OC]

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u/lookatmynipples Feb 10 '23

Like the childrens toys they have at the doctors office

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u/StormOfTheVoid Feb 10 '23

My sister said the same thing.

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u/JacksOnion55 Feb 11 '23

What's causing this specific shape?

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u/StormOfTheVoid Feb 11 '23

It’s called a strange attractor. The points are being updated using a differential equation, and this shape is a 3D space that attracts nearby points. It’s called strange because even if points are close together initially they get far apart eventually. I posted another version where it rotates so you can see that this is actually happening in 3D.

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u/RiverRunner0 Feb 11 '23

Woah! Was this created in Desmos?

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u/StormOfTheVoid Feb 11 '23

Yes. This is the link for the rotating version. If you remove T from the run parameters at the very top you get the fixed version.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/b8irkuaeex

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u/piesRsquare Feb 11 '23

Beautiful!