> TonyB wrote:
> >> Nice! Beeing a fractal lover me I must love it...
> >Thank you. (= I thought that Attractors were chaotic and not fractal.
> Perhaps
> >someone could explain this to me...
>
> That's right... I must have been a bit tired when I wrote the reply...
> Attractors are often described together with fractals because they are both
> a sort of deterministic chaos.
> BTW, did you know that the Lorenz attractor started out as a simple model of
> movement in the earths atmosphere?

Yeah. The page I found this information at had a lot of interesting trivia about
chaos and it's birth. I guess you could call this stuff legends, but they are
based on fact. I notice that most of the best stuff in the scientific world is
found by accident or as a spin-off.

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