what I make

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Well, I just learned what I make (those 3-D desktop things) are strange attractors, :wow:. well anyhow, I guess I need a brief explanation on what a strange attractor is...  lets start off with something simple, like oh the weather. You know how we as a collective society can only predict the weather up to the 7 day point... that is because of a person named Edward Lorenz; he was a meteorologist whom was trying to come up with a program (back in the days of the adding machines that took up an entire room of a building) that was going to predict the weather. while he was testing this program, he took the results of a previous test, and inputed the numbers for this test for right in the middle. Little did he know that the adding machine that he was working with, rounded off after three digits, so in stead of .1259468 he got .126, and he let it run. When he came back to the lab after the program was finished, he found that when he compared it to the first test results, they where drastically different. he determined from these results(after he found out what was wrong) that the atmospheric system had "sensitive dependence on initial conditions" or in other words a butterfly in Brazil could set off a hurricane in New Orleans weeks latter by flapping it's wings right now as I type out this Journal(in laymen terms the butterfly effect).
He even went on to graph this system he has developed, and then he created the first attractor... but moving along a strange attractor is: an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic; or in other words like a fractal... for more information check out either: Wikipedia, your local library, or your local math professor, whichever one works for you... oh, and the program I use is something called chaoscope, which is used in order to graph out all sorts of attractors... so it's great to get that off my back!
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