Someone spotted a Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation hidden in OpenAI's promo video
tszzl · x · 2026-10-31
A fun find making the rounds: @geogristle spotted a Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation phase portrait embedded in OpenAI's 'There are many futures' promo video. The frames show both stylized flow-field renders with equations and textbook-style vector-field diagrams.
The Bogdanov–Takens bifurcation is a classic structure in dynamical systems theory — a rather hardcore Easter egg for a corporate brand video, and math-adjacent AI Twitter is delighted.
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