The Hénon strange attractor is a system of two simple equations that gives rise to chaotic behavior. I first encountered Jared Tarbell's
beautiful visualizations of the attractor many years ago and recently explored making my own pictures using my favorite programming language at the time, Julia. Here's a gallery of the most interesting pictures I created along the way. The code for these is described at the bottom of the post. Click on any picture to see it in full resolution. Here's the Julia code that I