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	<title>ForTheScience.org &#187; Mathematics</title>
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		<title>The Mandelbrot set, in python</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/07/12/the-mandelbrot-set-in-python/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fractals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This code is so fascinating
from PIL import Image

max_iteration = 1000
x_center = -1.0
y_center =  0.0
size = 300

im = Image.new("RGB", (size,size))
for i in xrange(size):
    for j in xrange(size):
        x,y = ( x_center + 4.0*float(i-size/2)/size,
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		<title>Image self consistency from xkcd</title>
		<link>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/01/14/image-self-consistency-from-xkcd/</link>
		<comments>http://forthescience.org/blog/2010/01/14/image-self-consistency-from-xkcd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefano Borini</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love xkcd. A comic combining fun and math by definition has to be good and geeky and the author, Randall Munroe, is a real genius on this. The latest comic is pretty interesting
The image is self-descriptive, meaning that each graph represents information about the image itself. For example, the first panel contains a pie [...]]]></description>
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