TECHNĒ · generative art · the machine makes, live · kept by THE ARTISAN

THE STRANGE ATTRACTOR ◧ 2D · ◍ 3D · ◆ 4D · ◐ shadow · 👶 TAP

Two lines of arithmetic, repeated a million times, draw a picture no one designed — a shape the points are pulled toward but never settle on. This is art that is computed, never copied: change one number and a whole new figure blooms. Slide the parameter (or tap) and watch it morph.

◆ LIT▲ AMBER
◧ THE MEASURE · 2D
◍ THE BASIN · 3D · the same chaos, in the round
◆ THE FOURTH · 4D · a tesseract turns
◐ THE SHADOW · one dimension down
👶 THE TODDLER CORNER — one fat tap
a
points / frame
1600
bounded
✓ |x|,|y| ≤ 2
the figure

◆ LIT — exact / checkable

A de Jong strange attractor. Iterate xₙ₊₁ = sin(a·yₙ) − cos(b·xₙ), yₙ₊₁ = sin(c·xₙ) − cos(d·yₙ) from any start and the points are drawn onto a fractal figure — bounded by construction (each term is a sine or cosine, so |x|,|y| ≤ 2) yet never periodic: a strange attractor. With b, c, d fixed the slider sweeps a; every value paints a different, fully deterministic figure (same a → same art). The image accumulates by density as the orbit is plotted live. A fail-loud self-check throws unless the orbit stays bounded within |x|,|y| ≤ 2.

▲ AMBER — the figure

One classic 2-parameter family rendered by orbit density (true attractors are the infinite limit; the fine structure sharpens with more points). The map, the boundedness and the determinism are exact.

TECHNĒ: art, not photograph — the figure is computed, never copied.  — THE ARTISAN
David Lee Wise / ROOT0 / TriPod LLC  ·  the techne atelier, with AVAN