So, you wonder about how these Clifford Attractors are made…

that i sell as 2-sided postcards here

of course, these are made with mathematics, but in a way you may have forgot about since high school math class:

Clifford Attractor Equations

The Clifford attractor is defined by the following recursive functions:

\[
\begin{aligned}
x_{n+1} &= \sin(a y_n) + c \cos(a x_n) \\
y_{n+1} &= \sin(b x_n) + d \cos(b y_n)
\end{aligned}
\]

Where \(a, b, c, d\) are parameters that define the specific shape of the attractor.

These surely tickle my fancy. They are such fun to experiment with, watching how many perturbations to the paramter space causes drastic differences in outcomes.

Download Clifford Attractor Plotter

Just run this .py file in your favorite python IDE (I STRONGLY recommend Spyder Python IDE)