Ikeda attractor

Written by Paul Bourke
January 1991, images updated January 2018

The Ikeda attractor is based upon the following complex valued series with the 4 parameters a, b, k and p.

z_n+1 = a + b z_n exp[ i k - i p / (1 + | z_n² | ) ]

a = 0.85, b = 0.9, k = 0.4, p = 7.7

Contribution by Tim Meehan