The three equations he was using were taken his life changing short cut, he decided to return to the three equations to see if maybe they related to Chaos Theory. Chaos has always modeled after order, a concept that contradicts what the average person considers chaos. Until we had the Math and the computers, we saw only turbulence and energy without predictable form. Note, anything on a dynamical system is far from predictable. But in the realm of chaos, where everything should fall apart, the strange attractor emerges.
Strange attractors are the order within the chaos that describes the essence of all chaos itself.
The lines flow, a reminder of the dynamics. It is not linear and is three dimensional. The distance between the lines is not predictable if one observed the previous one. The lines are never in the same place twice nor do they repeat themselves. One of the most outstanding similarities between the Lorenzian waterwheel.