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Wada Basins

topology  ·  chaos  ·  fractal boundaries

Basin A
Basin B
Basin C

click render to compute basins

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The Wada property is one of topology's most unsettling facts: three open sets can be arranged so that every point on any boundary simultaneously borders all three regions.

Here a pendulum swings above three magnets arranged in a triangle. Drag controls the damping and magnet strength. The fractal tendrils interleave infinitely — zoom deep and the three colors always reappear together at every boundary.

Click on the canvas to drop a test trajectory and watch it spiral toward one attractor.