Strange Attractors

Strange attractors are a phenomenon in chaos theory where a system, despite appearing random, gravitates toward a pattern that's neither a fixed point nor a regular oscillation, but something more complex. They reveal the hidden order within chaotic systems. A strange attractor is a mathematical structure that the system's state will evolve toward over time, regardless of the starting conditions (within certain bounds). The resulting pattern often exhibits fractal properties—intricate detail at every scale—but never exactly repeats itself.