Strange Attractor Blender Add-On + Bonus Addon
What you find here is a Blender Add-On to generate dynamically 75 famous and non famous "Strange Attractors".
I made a small gallery where you can watch all 75 strange attractor IMAGES
When i started this project there was not reasonable way to build those so called "Strange Attractors" with Geometry Nodes, so i asked "ChatGpt" to help me to develop a Addon for Blender. It all started with the question "hi chatgpt, i want to make a blender python script to build the "strange attractors" made for a blender platform. i was wondering if it would be possible to translate this to a blender python file to build the "strange attractors" in blender dynamically?" now after a dialogue of 100.000 lines i (we ChatGpt and me) have an answer - this addon.
So, one important thing to know if you buy it - i´am not a python developer nor a mathematics guru - it was a project to develop something interesting with the help of ChatGPT. I tested the product carefully on most windows & mac blender version between 2.9.3 to 4.2.1 and found no errors at all. But of course if you have a special surrounding it could happens that you run in some problems, where i could not help you or solve it.
Like in my other Projects, you´ll find a detailed description in the Documentation and the FAQ´s. Beside the Addon you´ll find two more files. The first is a blend.file which contains all the attractors in an "asset box", for a quick use you can drop them into your stage. Because the are normal curve objects, you can adjust those parameters by yourself. But - they are not dynamically! You can only adjust them like a normal curve object.
The second file is a blend.file "Animation &Material" which contains some nice gradient materials for those round curve objects. to give theme a beautiful look look. And it contains a "version 0 script" that i didn´t developed further because i couldn´t solve some issues. My intention was to make a animation feature to create videos of the "growing" process of the Strange Attractor, But i couldn´t find a solution to render those videos in eevee or cycles. Blender always crashes on rendering. But the viewport rendering is fine, so with a nice stage setup it looks as well great. But because it is un-stabile, i decided not to integrate this in the Addon itself. - so it is a bonus. The documentation is as well in the main documentation.
"The term 'Strange Attractor' refers to a type of attractor in dynamic systems that exhibits sensitive dependence on initial conditions, making the system's long-term behavior unpredictable. The most iconic example of a strange attractor is the Lorenz attractor. This three-dimensional structure is visually reminiscent of a butterfly or a mask. It was named after Edward N. Lorenz, who discovered it through his mathematical modeling of atmospheric phenomena."
For further reading about Strange Attractors and the Lorenz Attractor, you can explore these link:
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