Julien C. Sprott has a very fun, approachable, and free book on generating various kinds of strange attractor visualizations: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa

Julien C. Sprott has a very fun, approachable, and free book on generating various kinds of strange attractor visualizations: http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/sa.htm It has 1993-era code, which paradoxically might make it good for a coding beginner since you'd have to work a bit to figure out a basic syntactic translation, but the high level idea is already there. You get immediate visual results, and there is a lot of room to experiment and play.