Strange Attractors

Complex mathematical art 

75 strange attractor

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 Add-on 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 have an answer - this add-on.

Like in my other Projects, you´ll find a detailed description in the Documentation and the FAQ´s. Beside the Add-on 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 (the bonus) 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 developing "version 0 script" that i didn´t developed further because i could not solve some issues. My intention was to make a animation feature to create videos of the "growing" process of the strange attractors, but i could not find a solution to render those videos in eevee or cycles. Blender always crashes on rendering. But the view port rendering is fine, so with a nice stage setup it looks as well great. But because it is un-stable, i decided not to integrate this in the Add-on itself. - so it is only a bonus. The documentation is as well in the main documentation.

"The term 'strange attractors' 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 modelling of atmospheric phenomena."

For further reading about Strange Attractors and the Lorenz Attractor, you can explore these link:

• Introduction to Strange Attractors
  

The September Update Upgrade 2026

The new 2D Map mode adds eleven classic 2D strange attractors — Clifford, Peter de Jong, Symmetric Icon and more — to the Chaos Attractors add-on, tracing them as smooth 3D curves instead of the usual point-cloud renders. So they are now "3D" Attractor as the others. The Map dropdown holds eleven formulas: Bedhead, Clifford, Fractal Dream, Gumowski-Mira, Hopalong, Jason Rampe 1–3, Johnny Svensson, Peter de Jong and Symmetric Icon. A detailed description is in the download area under "Version two".