Projects from my Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos class were spectacular. One student made a chaotic waterwheel (also called the Lorenz or Malkus waterwheel) using 3D-printed parts and an inexpensive water pump. The dynamics are governed by the famous Lorenz equations.

It rotates one way, then another, ad infinitum

here’s some fun code for visualizing a lorenz attractor in 3D

@SCalangos vamo fazer um desse para um futuro estudo dirigido do Strogatz KKKKK

Any chance the model files were made available for the water wheel? Otherwise, I may have to reinvent the, uh, wheel.

Interesting. I get the strange attractor I think. What's the point though?

Instead of just simulating some chaotic equations on the computer, a real life demonstration helps illustrate that the phenomena are real

Nice sophisticated prototype, which will give feel of chaotic water wheel 😃

Hi I am looking for chaotic DE that is 0 at -infinity and oscillates chaotic around 1 (attractor=1) when approaching + infinity. Are you aware of anything like that. Sprott's jerk DEs are all with the attractor 0.