This is a small project to explore some dynamic systems and visualize some strange attractors. The project uses Rust with kiss3d as a graphics backend. The actual simulations are very crude, we could pretend to be fancy and call this a Newton-Raphson implementation of solving a system of differential equations - but a fairer description is taking little steps in space according to the equation rules. With small enough steps, we get a decent simulation!
Ensure you have compiled the project in release mode. Use cargo build -r to do this. Kiss3d does not handle large number of points well in debug mode, so cargo run is not a great experience.
Once you have compiled the project, run it using the binary target/release/strange_attractors. Use the --help flag for extended help on the command line arguments to the program, although a summary is left below:
Usage: strange_attractors [OPTIONS]
Options:
-n, --num-points <NUM_POINTS>
Number of spheres to add to the simulation
[default: 5000]
-i, --initial-position-scale <INITIAL_POSITION_SCALE>
Starting random position scale for simulation points.
A larger scale will result in more chaotic behavior sooner
[default: 1]
-s, --system <SYSTEM>
The system of equations to simulate. Use the --help flag to see options.
Options include:
* 0: Lorentz
* 1: Aizawa
* 2: Thomas Cyclical
[default: 0]
-h, --help
Print help (see a summary with '-h')
-V, --version
Print version