🦋 Lorenz Attractor
The Lorenz attractor is a chaotic solution set to a simplified three-variable system of ordinary differential equations, originally derived by Edward Lorenz in 1963 to model atmospheric convection. Its trajectories never repeat or cross yet stay confined to a bounded, butterfly-shaped region — the classic illustration of deterministic chaos and sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
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