From Math Images The Henon Attractor is a special kind of
fractal that belongs in a group called Strange Attractors, a
category of images that is very strange indeed. A characteristic
of this strange function is that it drawn irregularly. If you
iterate the functions that describe the Henon Attractor and plot
the points of the functions for each iteration in a time
sequence, you would observe that the points jump from one random
location within the image to another. If you take a look at the
animation, you can see the irregularity of the first 120,000
plotted points. Eventually, the individual points become so
numerous that they appear to form lines and an image emerges.
Also, this image is an iterated function, meaning that the
equations that describe it can be applied to itself an infinite
amount of times. In fact, if you magnify this image, you would
find that the lines that appear to be single lines on the larger
image are actually sets or bundles of lines, who, if magnified
closer, are bundles of lines a