Examples of strange attractors

• A collection of favorites

• New attractors generated in real time

• Simplest chaotic flow

• Stretching and folding

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This leads us to the subject of the talk - Strange Attractors

Essentially all chaotic systems produce strange attractors

Detecting chaos in experimental data ==> finding a strange attractor

Here are samples from my book (colorized)

Most are from simple 2-D polynomial maps