The Hénon attractor

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The Hénon attractor is the orbit of the iteration

Here we plot the first 5,000 iterates of H, with a = 1.4 and b = 0.3.

Correlations between x-values with lags one through six:

Designed and rendered using Mathematica 3.0 for the Apple Macintosh, based on images from Peitgen et al, Chaos and Fractals, Springer-Verlag, 1992.