“Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” — Steve Jobs I’ve shown many attractor images I have generated over the past few weeks, but how have I been drawing them? I have been writing code to do so, but stopped including it in the posts because it was getting long and complex. I promised that, someday, I would share the code. Today is that day!
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. — J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) I’ve been going on and on about de Jong attractors lately , but that is only one kind of attractor. There are many others!