8 XXX : gonwild

source: http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/33ivdn/the_butterfly_effect_gif/cqlaujv
can someone ELI5 what a Lorenz Attractor is?
That's definitely matplotlib, so we definitely need that awesome python source code! Edit0: nailed it: https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/02/16/animating-the-lorentz-system-in-3d/ Edit1: he just posted his source code: https://github.com/mherr77m/Lorenz
Should all three of those position v time graphs really read x-pos? Also, /r/physics would love this as well
OP: /r/woahdude would like this