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Description: The Lorenz attractor near an intermittent cycle: much of the time the trajectory is close to a nearly periodic orbit, but diverges and returns. Change the parameters slightly and the intermittency will either dissolve or turn into a real attractive periodic cycle.
Title: Intermittent Lorenz Attractor - Chaoscope
Credit: Intermittent Lorenz Attractor
Author: Anders Sandberg from Oxford, UK
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