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Pickover

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A Pickover (Clifford-style) 3-D ornamental attractor map.

discrete · map2 dimensionsattractor

Pickover attractor

attractor

Definition

@staticmethod
def _step(X, a, b, c, d):
    x, y = X
    xp = np.sin(a * y) + c * np.cos(a * x)
    yp = np.sin(b * x) + d * np.cos(b * y)
    return xp, yp

Parameters

Symbol Default Role
a -1.4 angular frequency scaling the coordinates
b 1.6 angular frequency scaling the coordinates
c 1 amplitude of the cosine contribution
d 0.7 amplitude of the cosine contribution

State variables: x, y

Properties

Lyapunov spectrum
TODO — lyapunov_spectrum failed: AttributeError
Kaplan–Yorke dimension
TODO — requires a numeric Lyapunov spectrum
Divergence ∇·f
n/a — discrete map — flow divergence undefined (per-step contraction is |det J|)
Equilibria
1 fixed points
0 stable · 1 unstable

Use it in TSDynamics

import tsdynamics as ts

system = ts.systems.Pickover()
traj = system.run(steps=10_000)
ts.plot(traj)

spectrum = ts.analysis.lyapunov_spectrum(system)
ts.analysis.kaplan_yorke_dimension(spectrum)

Reference

Pickover (1990), Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty (St. Martin's Press)

BibTeX
@misc{pickover,
  title = {Pickover system},
  note = {Pickover (1990), Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty (St. Martin's Press)}
}