Attractor
Attractor is a program to search for and generate two dimensional quadratic map strange attractors.
Status: experimental, for me as an exercise in Rust.
The user can:
- Generate random chaotic attractors
- Tweak the parameters for an attractor
- Tweak image rendering settings, including:
- Transformations, e.g. linear, square root, log densities
- Palettes
Concepts
Several layers exist before an image is visible on screen:
- Point - a point in attractor space
- Swarm - a set of points in attractor space, generated with a number of iterations and quadratic map parameters
- Raster - a matrix of relative densities 0..=1, generated from a swarm and a desired resolution
- Image - a width x height image, generated from a raster and a number of aesthetic settings
Dependencies
The GUI is built with egui. Images are generated with image.
Non-goals
- Attractors other than two dimensional quadratic maps
- Good UX
- Long term maintanence