Anders Hesselbom

Mandelbrot

2010-10-19

The day before yesterday, I did a bit on Bo E. Carlsson’s book on fractals, and then yesterday, one of the masterminds behind fractal geometry, Benoît Mandelbrot, died. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” and gave name to the Mandelbrot set, the fractal which he described. A fractal is a self repeating geometric shape. This is what a Mandelbrot set looks like (generated using ChaosPro):

A closer look:

If you are using an older version of Windows, Fractint is the best fractal software.

The C source code for Fractint is available for download from here.

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