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attractor

Published 8 March 2025 at 527 × 394 in On the cover: Voronoi diagrams and generative art

strange attractor

The Lorenz attractor is perhaps the best-known example of a strange attractor

Sam is a maths student at Durham University where he hosts
Chalkboard Ultra podcast and spends too much time thinking about the Standard Model and Mexican hats. If he’s not pestering Adam then he can definitely be found playing the keytar in a funk band completely unrelated to quantum field theory.

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