Attractor — four numbers, one form
Take a single point and feed it through two short lines of arithmetic. Take the answer and feed it back in. Again. Millions of times. The point never settles and never escapes — it keeps tracing the same shape, denser and denser, until a structure no one designed precipitates out of the noise. The entire form is held in four constants. Nothing here is a stored image: every bright place is somewhere the point has been.
These four numbers are the entire image. No pixels are stored — each is a place a single point visited, falling through x' = sin(a·y) − cos(b·x), y' = sin(c·x) − cos(d·y), forever. Change one digit and a different universe precipitates.
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This is a de Jong attractor — a tiny dynamical system, two equations deep. There is no training, no data, no model weights. There is an equation, four numbers, and feedback. From almost nothing, form. That gap — between how little goes in and how much comes out — is the whole point. It is the same gap that makes generative AI feel like magic, stripped down until you can hold the entire cause in one hand.
Press new form and four fresh numbers fall out of the void. Most are quiet. Some are extraordinary. None of them were drawn by anyone.