Crocheting the Lorenz Manifold

In 2003, Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf from the Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics produced the first real model of the Lorenz Attractor surface by knitting.






















Download the paper by Osinga & Krauskopf here.

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Lorenz Attractor

The Lorenz attractor has chaotic behaviour, named for Edward N. Lorenz. The movie shows the changing of the attractor with increasing Prandtl number.



Downlad definition here