Rössler Attractor

The Rössler attractor is the solution of these differential equations:

x'(t) = -(y(t) + z(t))
y'(t) = x(t) + a y(t)
z'(t) = b + x(t)z(t) - c z(t).

Here is a plot of a numerical solution, with a = b = 0.2, and c = 8.0.

Rossler attractor

Designed and rendered with Mathematica 3.0 and GifOMatic for NeXT.
See Peitgen, Jürgens, and Saupe, Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science; Springer-Verlag, New York, 1992, §12.3, pp. 686–696.

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