To do and notice:
Click in the window to start a particle in motion around
the two strange attractors. Click again very near to where you clicked the first
time. You should see a new particle following the first very closely for a
while, but as time goes on the small difference between the paths of the
particles increases until they are following completely non-related paths.
The Lorenz butterfly is significant becasue it illustrates the concept of "sensitive dependence upon initial conditions."
Click in the window (one or more times) to start a Lorenz Butterfly.
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Copyright 1996, James P. Crutchfield. All rights reserved.