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The Thomas attractor is a mathematical concept in dynamical systems theory representing a type of chaotic space phase that exhibits cyclic symmetry. It was named after René Thomas, the mathematician who introduced it in 1979. The system is strictly related to the Lorenz attractor another famous chaotic evolutionary space manifold. The 3D Thomas attractor is represented by the combination of three differential equations where the symmetry is invariant under rotations of 120° (or 2π/3 radians) aro

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