rectangle attractor
No input arguments. Starting at any point [circled in green] on the [black] quadrilateral,
we move in straight [blue] lines inside, horizontally and then vertically,
taking left or right 90-degree turns to reflect off of the convex 4-gon
whenever we impinge on its edge. (Of course, this is different from the
way a light ray reflects from a mirror physically, which is by the law of
equal angles of incidence and reflection.) As we continue this process,
a pattern emerges, either cyclic or chaotic. [Note that the final
nine iterations are highlighted in yellow, and the stopping point is
circled in red.]
Cite As
Lang Withers (2025). rectangle attractor (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/57964-rectangle-attractor), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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