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What is in each roster

Every entry was curated by judging the candidate in motion. Entry 0 is always the family’s canonical figure.

FamilyEntriesWhat the extras are
de_jong13Twelve gallery tuples: shells, vaulted arcs, a four-lobed bow-tie, a dense orb, a bare S-curve.
clifford13Twelve more: woven discs, an oblique ring, three separated crescents, a hard-edged chevron.
thomas13A twelve-step sweep of a from 0.03 to 0.22 — the family reads a alone, so this is one continuous axis from a space-filling scribble to a tight knot at the edge of chaos.
lorenz12rho walked from 24.4 to 126.52 (entry 1 is the rho ≈ 100 torus knot), plus three that move sigma/beta instead.

Two facts about specific entries that a still will not tell you:

  • The Lorenz torus knot (entry 1) blooms slowly on a reseed. Its orbit is marginally stable, so a kick sends the cloud on a wide excursion — measured at about 2.2x the figure’s own extent — that takes several seconds to fall back. On the canonical butterfly the same disturbance is absorbed in a handful of frames. That is a look, not a defect, but bind reseed on it knowing it.
  • Thomas past a ≈ 0.208 closes into periodic orbits. The roster stops at 0.22 deliberately: further up, the flow collapses onto a short cycle, which has a perfectly good bounding box and draws as a few dots rather than a figure. Four De Jong candidates were rejected at curation for the same reason.

Indices are names. The shipped attractor_*gallery presets step these by index and attractor_lorenzknot pins Lorenz entry 1, so a roster edit that inserts or reorders renames figures out from under them. Append instead.

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