Animated Lorenz Attractor with Maxima and gnuplot
math, maxima, programming, gnuplot.
I was reading the Wikipedia page for the famous Lorenz system of differential equations, and saw a nice animated plot of the phase space written in the Julia language. Among the other code examples on that page is a solution for Maxima, which outputs the following when run:
It's not a bad plot, but I thought it could be improved.
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