Lozi Attractor

The Lozi attractor is the orbit of the iteration

H(x, y) = (1 + y – a |x|, b x).

Here is a plot of the first 5,000 (well, 5,001) iterations, using a=1.7, b=0.5.

Designed and rendered long ago with Mathematica 3.0 and GifOMatic for NeXT.

See Peitgen, Jürgens, and Saupe, Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science; Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, §12.1, p. 672.

Copyright © 1997–2008 by Robert M. Dickau

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