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Murmuration

Starlings at dusk, folding and splitting around a falcon.

Lorenz Butterfly

The 1963 weather model that gave chaos its butterfly, drawn by its own flow.

Snow Globe

Shaken now and then, the snow swirls and settles around a small pine.

Spiral Arms

Stars brighten as they cross a density wave that turns slower than they do.

Particle Clock

The time, in your own format, written in particles that regroup every minute.

Torus Knot

A tube wound through a ring in a knot; two knobs choose how it winds.

Harmonograph

Damped pendulums draw nested loops that slowly redraw themselves.

Cloud Chamber

Particle tracks condense in vapor and curl in a magnetic field.

Wind Tree

A lone tree sways on a hill through four seasons.

Soap Film

Rainbow colors swirl across a thin, draining soap film.

Tesseract

A four-dimensional cube turns through planes we cannot see.

Orrery

Planets circle a steady sun, trailing the paths they draw.

Ringed Planet

A dark ringed world slowly eclipses its sun.

Overcast

A low gray ceiling of cloud rolling slowly overhead.

Sandstone City

An endless fractal city of sunlit sandstone blocks.

Neon Heart

A glass heart inside a ring of flowing neon current.

Star Trails

Long arcs of colored light, like a night-sky exposure.

Koi Pond

Koi glide under lily pads in a clear green pond.

Gas Giant

A banded giant planet turning slowly, with a small moon in orbit.

Lighthouse

A lighthouse sweeps its beam over a dark sea under the Milky Way.

Slow Fireworks

Fireworks open in slow motion over dark water.

Digital Rain

Columns of glowing green symbols fall down a black screen.

Dream Gradient

Soft pastel colors melt into one another.

Woven Rosette

Fine glowing lines weave a slowly turning rosette.

Total Eclipse

The Sun's corona streams around a black Moon.

Tide Line

Turquoise waves wash up a sandy beach, seen from above.

Dandelion Seeds

Dandelion seeds float past in low evening light.

Midnight Skyline

A city skyline at night, its lit windows mirrored in the water.

Seigaiha Waves

The Japanese wave pattern in indigo, cream, and gold.

Paper Cut Hills

Layers of cut paper form rolling hills under a paper sun.

Zen Garden

Raked sand circles three stones as the light slowly moves.

Fireplace

A log fire burning in a brick fireplace.

Planet Rise

Sunrise over the curved edge of a planet, seen from orbit.

Firefly Meadow

Fireflies glowing and dimming over a night meadow.

Golden Hour

A low sun and orange light under drifting purple clouds.

Rain on the Pond

Raindrops spreading rings across a dark pond.

Synthwave Sunset

A striped sun, neon mountains, and a glowing grid.

Dense dots

City Bokeh

Out-of-focus city lights in gold, pink, and blue.

Ink in Water

Teal, indigo, and crimson ink unfurling in clear water.

Kaleidoscope

A mirrored pattern of jewel colors, always rearranging.

Candlelight

One candle flame, leaning and steadying in the dark.

Meteor Shower

Shooting stars crossing a clear night sky.

Campfire Embers

Orange sparks rising from a fire into the dark.

Sea of Clouds

Sunrise over a blanket of cloud, seen from above.

Desert Dunes

Layers of sand dunes under a hazy sun.

Fast motion

Starfield Warp

Stars streaming out from the center at an easy pace.

Light Leaks

Warm washes of orange and rose light with a little grain.

Watercolor Bloom

Blots of watercolor spreading on textured white paper.

Dense dots

Mandala Breath

Gold and teal rings of petals, swelling and settling.

Fairy Lights

Strings of warm bulbs, gently brightening and dimming.

Wormhole

A slow flight down a swirling tunnel of colored gas.

Quiet Snowfall

Soft snow falling at dusk over snow-covered pines.

Cotton Candy Sky

Soft pink, peach, and lavender haze, slowly folding.

Kelp Forest

Tall kelp swaying in green-blue, sunlit water.

Fast color change

Retro Plasma

Blocky blobs of saturated color from old computer demos.

Window Light

Afternoon sun through blinds, striped across a wall.

Liquid Chrome

Liquid metal rippling with bright white highlights.

Julia Bloom

A Julia set fractal that keeps changing shape.

Lantern Festival

Paper lanterns rising into the night above still water.

Comet

A bright comet with a blue ion tail and a golden dust tail.

Cherry Blossom Drift

Pink petals tumbling across a pale spring sky.

Moonlit Clouds

A full moon behind drifting, silver-edged clouds.

Jellyfish Drift

Glowing jellyfish pulsing upward through deep blue water.

Mystify

Two glowing polygons bouncing and leaving fading trails.

Soft Orbs

Balls of colored light drifting and merging in the dark.

Smoke Wisps

Thin incense smoke curling into ribbons in the dark.

Contour Lines

A slowly changing map of fine teal contour lines.

Snowy Window

Snow and warm street lights beyond a frosted window.

Harvest Moon

A large golden moon whose phase slowly changes.

Autumn Leaves

Red and gold leaves spinning down through amber light.

Pine Fog

Rows of pines fading into pale morning fog.

Lake at Dusk

Mountains and a crescent moon mirrored in a still lake.

Oscilloscope

A green trace looping through Lissajous figures.

Neon Halo

Neon rings turning above a dark, glossy floor.

Paper Marbling

Bands of indigo, ochre, and crimson pulled into waves.

Moiré Rings

Three sets of rings sliding into moiré patterns.

Night Train

Dark hills and distant lights passing a train window.

Supernova Remnant

Rings of blue, red, and gold gas around a small white star.

Sunbeam Dust

Dust motes glinting in a shaft of sunlight.

Balloon Dawn

Striped hot air balloons drifting across a dawn sky.

Summer Meadow

Golden grass swaying in a warm evening breeze.

Circuit Glow

Pulses of light running along circuit board tracks.

Truchet Weave

Rounded ribbons of color winding through loops and curves.

Rainy City Night

A lit skyline reflected in wet ground on a rainy night.

Star Cluster

Thousands of stars gathered around a bright center.

Soap Bubbles

Rainbow-rimmed bubbles rising against a blue sky.

Frozen Lake

Thick blue ice, pale cracks, and glinting frost.

Radio Waves

Stacked white lines rising into peaks like a mountain range.

Quasicrystal

A glowing pattern with symmetry that never quite repeats.

Stardust Spiral

A tilted spiral galaxy made of points of light.

Pool Caustics

Nets of sunlight wobbling over turquoise pool tiles.

Light Tunnel

A glide down a tunnel of color-changing neon rings.

Glowing Tide

Small waves lighting up electric blue on a night beach.

Event Horizon

A black hole bending the light of its own disk.

Misty Peaks

Mountain ridges fading into dawn mist.

Lava Lamp

Warm wax rising, merging, and drifting apart.

Stained Glass

Jewel-colored panes with light moving behind them.

Solar Corona

The Sun up close, wrapped in slow streamers.

Sunlit Deep

Shafts of sunlight reaching into blue water.

Oil & Water

An iridescent film curling across dark water.

Dense dots

Honeycomb Pulse

Waves of light crossing a glowing comb.

Northern Lights

Luminous curtains above a still horizon.

Silk Flow

Iridescent fabric, caught in a gentle current.

Velvet Nebula

Rose and indigo clouds drifting among stars.

Prism Bloom

Petals of light unfolding in perfect symmetry.

Star Nest

A slow journey through a field of stars.

Moonlit Sea

Moonlight reflected on a quiet sea.

Open Ocean

Rolling blue waves beneath a low sun.

Distant Galaxy

A spiral of starlight in the deep dark.

Fast color change

Color Melt

Pools of vivid color, endlessly folding.

Marble Drift

Blue marbling with an unhurried rhythm.

Saturn Orbit

A ringed world, suspended in soft light.

Rain on Glass

Cool raindrops and warm, distant city lights.

Liquid Gold

Warm metallic ripples with an amber glow.

Opal Rings

Pearlescent circles, gently breathing.

Ribbon Waves

Fine threads of light moving as one.

Luminous Lattice

A delicate grid with softly wandering light.

Aizawa Bloom

A sphere with a tube through its middle, wound by one steady equation.

Thomas Labyrinth

Three identical equations, one per axis, wandering a maze of loops.

Halvorsen Triad

Three lobes that turn the same way whichever axis you look down.

Rössler Band

A flat spiral that lifts into a fold and drops back in, again and again.

Dadras Scroll

Two scrolls trading a thread of light between them.

Four Wings

Four wings around one center, beating in no regular order.

Rabinovich Shell

A curled shell from a model of waves in a plasma.

Chua Double Scroll

The double scroll of Chua’s circuit: a few cheap parts that behave chaotically.

Nosé–Hoover Tori

Nested shells from a model of heat, each point held to its own.

Burke–Shaw Ribbon

A twisted ribbon that loops around itself and never closes.

Arneodo Shell

A spiral that grows, folds over, and starts again from the inside.

Shimizu–Morioka Wings

Two small wings joined by one long outer loop.

Dequan Li Spring

A coiled spring with a pair of wide wings on top.

Clifford Silk

A two-line formula, repeated millions of times a second, folding into silk.

Hopalong Quilt

Barry Martin’s hopping map, stitching a quilt as it goes.

Gumowski–Mira Bloom

A map from particle-accelerator research that grows birds and flowers.

Ikeda Spiral

Light circling inside a laser cavity, as a map. It curls like a wave.

Tinkerbell Orbit

A quadratic map whose points never settle and never leave.

Chaos Fern

Four simple rules picked at random, and a fern appears. It sways if you let it.

Fractal Flame

Three bent copies of the plane, chosen at random, glowing where they agree.

Dragon Curve

The paper-folding dragon, built from two rules picked at random.

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Chaos Game

Jump part of the way to a random corner, never the same one twice, and a pattern appears.

Duffing Section

A forced, damped spring, photographed once per swing.

Mandelbrot Nebula

Every orbit that escapes the Mandelbrot set, drawn as it flies.

Bifurcation Tree

One simple equation: order splits in two, again and again, then turns to chaos.

Curl Currents

Threads of silk on a slowly turning current, a few bright among many dim.

Ocean Gyres

Two ocean gyres breathing back and forth, stirring their waters together.

Vortex Street

A stream flows past a post and sheds whirlpools: left, right, left.

Magnet Lines

Field lines running from north poles to south as the magnets drift.

Jet Streams

Two jet streams snaking around the globe, dragging eddies along.

Leapfrog Vortices

Two smoke rings, seen edge-on, taking turns to pass through each other.

Combed Fur

Short strokes laid along a swirling field, like fur brushed one way.

Solar Loops

Glowing plasma climbs magnetic loops above the sun’s surface and falls back.

Wind Map

Weather systems turn and drift; the wind leaves its paths as streaks.

Hurricane Eye

Rain bands spiraling in toward a calm eye.

Cream in Coffee

Cream poured in, stirred once, and left to curl.

Pendulum Phase

Every way a driven pendulum can swing, all flowing at once.

Convection Cells

Heated from below: warm fluid rises and cool sinks, in rolls that wander.

Shear Billows

Two layers of air slide past each other and roll up like waves.

Chladni Plate

Sand on a vibrating plate, gathering on the lines that stay still.

Galaxy Collision

Two spiral galaxies pass close and pull long tails out of each other.

Accretion Disk

Matter spirals into a black hole, brighter on the side coming toward you.

Planet Nursery

Young planets clearing lanes in the dusty disk they formed in.

Binary Stream

Gas spills from a swollen star into a disk around its small companion.

Ring Shepherds

Two small moons herding a narrow ring and leaving kinks in it.

Three-Body Dance

Three equal stars chasing each other around one figure eight.

Trojan Swarm

Asteroids leading and trailing a giant planet, seen turning with it.

Radiation Belts

Charged particles spiral along a planet’s magnetic field, bouncing between the poles.

Dyson Swarm

Thousands of collectors circling a star in rings tilted every way.

Precession Rose

An orbit that turns a little every time around, drawing a rosette.

Retrograde Loops

The planets as seen from Earth, looping back on themselves.

Light Fountain

Three jets of light, arcing up and splashing down.

Waterfall

Water pours off a ledge while mist drifts up from the pool.

Sparkler

A sparkler waved through the dark, its sparks cooling as they fall.

Lava Fountain

Molten rock thrown high, cooling from gold to dull red before it lands.

Geyser

A pool that builds, erupts and settles, with steam drifting downwind.

Hourglass

Sand runs through the neck and piles up below, then the glass turns over.

Maple Seeds

Winged seeds spinning down on the breeze.

Drifting Feathers

Feathers rocking side to side as they sink.

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Sandstorm

Gusts driving sand across the frame in waves.

Tornado

Debris spiraling up a funnel that leans with the wind.

Light Painting

Three lights drawing in the dark, like a long-exposure photo.

Paper Planes

Paper planes gliding past, rising and dipping as they go.

Impact Ejecta

Small impacts on an airless moon throw up dust that falls back slowly.

Bait Ball

A school of fish wheeling as one, opening for the shark.

Bee Swarm

Bees looping around their queen as she moves.

Moths and Lamp

Moths keep the light at a fixed angle, and so they spiral around it.

Slime Mold

Simple cells that lay down scent and follow it, building a network.

Rival Colonies

Three colonies following their own trails and avoiding each other’s.

Rail Network

Slime mold growing between food sources, the way it once redrew a rail map.

Ink Veins

The same network, drawn as ink soaking into paper.

Shape Shifter

One cloud of points flowing from sphere to ring to cube and on.

Double Helix

Two strands and their rungs, turning as they slide along.

Möbius Flow

Points flowing along a strip that has only one side.

Spherical Harmonics

A sphere breathing in the shapes that describe vibrating drums and atoms.

Beating Heart

A heart of particles, beating at whatever pace you set.

Gyroid

Points crawling over a surface that splits space into two tangled halves.

Klein Bottle

A closed surface with no inside, shown in its figure-eight form.

Hopf Fibration

Circles on a four-dimensional sphere, projected into nested, linked rings.

Seashell

A spiral tube that widens with every turn, the way a snail’s shell grows.

Calabi–Yau

A cross-section of the shapes string theory uses for its hidden dimensions.

Rose Curves

Polar roses that open and close as their petal ratio drifts.

Electron Orbitals

Where a hydrogen atom’s electron is likely to be, sampled point by point.