De Jong Attractors

Published

July 27, 2026

I like attractor functions. All the appearance of chaos, but it’s deterministic.

They remind me of starling murmurations.

These all come from ggplot2:: via rcpp:: to speed up the processing of what are actually millions of data points in each piece.

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I like attractor functions. All the appearance of chaos, but it's deterministic.

![De Jong attractor sequence](./de_jong_attractor4.png)

![De Jong strikes back](./de_jong_attractor3.png)
![De Jong returns](./de_jong_attractor5.png)
They remind me of starling murmurations.

These all come from `ggplot2::` via `rcpp::` to speed up the processing of what are actually millions of data points in each piece.