Lorenz Attractor using Python 2.7 and Vpython Module on Mac OS X Lion

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Lorenz attractor's generated by three nonlinear simultaneous equation.

x1=x0+h*a*(y0-x0)
y1=y0+h*(x0*(b-z0)-y0)
z1=z0+h*(x0*y0-c*z0)

 
where

a=10
b=28
c=8./4.

We can play with a,b and c to see the effect.

Here the code to visualize Lorenz attractor on Python. We need VPython module to visualize it.

from visual import *
from operator import mod
jl=1.
h=0.01
a=10
b=28
c=8./4.
x0=0.1
y0=0
z0=0
n=10000.
r=1.
while jl < n:
    rate(1000)
    rd=mod(n,jl)/1000
    sphere(pos=(x0,y0,z0),radius=r, color=(rd,1,rd))
    x1=x0+h*a*(y0-x0)
    y1=y0+h*(x0*(b-z0)-y0)
    z1=z0+h*(x0*y0-c*z0)
    jl=jl+1
    x0=x1
    y0=y1
    z0=z1
    

Since Vpython's not support 64bit platform, we must execute the code using 32-bit python like this

Nugrohos-MacBook-Pro:cellular nugroho$ python2.7-32 lorenz.py

Here the result

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