# Render a rotating view around a Lorenz attractor
This visualizes the 3D structure of the attractor.

# Thanks
This was heavily inspired by this video by Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown:
[How I animate 3Blue1Brown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbu7Zu5X1zI)

# Scenes

## `scene.py`
Renders the state of a single Lorenz system.

## `scene_diverge.py`
Renders the state of a two Lorenz systems whose initial states
have a difference of 1/1000th in the z direction.
Initially they are on top of each other,
then after some time they diverge and take completely different trajectories.

# Manim installation
`python -m pip install manim`

This is the community edition of Manim, which differs somewhat
from the version used in the @3blue1brown video.

# Render a scene
E.g. `python -m manim -pql scene_diverge.py LorenzAttractor`

## Options
- `-p`  Play once
- `-ql`  Low quality (480p, 15fps), use for development.
- `-qm`  Medium quality (720p, 30fps), renders faster and
         results in smaller files than high quality.
- `-qh`  High quality (1080p, 60fps), renders very slowly, 
         use it to render the final version.

# Outputs
Can be found in the `media` subdirectory after rendering.

# Play
`mpv --loop -fs media/videos/scene_diverge/1080p60/LorenzAttractor.mp4`