I stumbled on what I believe is an “Aizawa Attractor”, a chaotic attractor in which states travel from one side to another of an ellipsoid along spiral trajectories. It showcases the visualization capabilities of #Simbrain and also shows how discovery is facilitated by Simbrain. #dynamicalsystems

Here's a cool pattern that two Braitenberg vehicles can make as they pursue each other. It’s a “billiard-like” pattern that fills in a ring-shaped region.

This simbrain sim shows how we can visualize the way a neural network represents its environment. As the mouse smells the cheeses and the flowers, different patterns occur. The network activations in the left panel seem chaotic, but if we look at the plot in the right panel we see structure.