Category Archives: Fractals

Exploring Mandelbrot parameter space – part 2

November 15, 2010 – 2:17 am

In the previous post, we saw that graphing the Mandelbrot starting point contains fractal features as well. We want to plot these features, and at the same time increase resolution but reducing computational cost. The first thing to note is that apparently, the plot is symmetric (but I don’t have any strict proof of it) [...]

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Exploring Mandelbrot parameter space – part 1

November 1, 2010 – 4:19 pm

Some time ago, I presented an interesting python code able to draw the so-called Mandelbrot set, a fractal image with intriguing properties. Recently, Benoit Mandelbrot passed away. I want to pay homage to his work by digging into more details of his eponymous image. In the previous post, we observed that a parameter is crucial [...]

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The Mandelbrot set, in python

July 12, 2010 – 7:02 pm

Hello StumbleUpon users. I am writing two additional posts on the Mandelbrot set, and you may be interested in them. The first one is here. The second one is here. Thank you for your interest! This code is so fascinating from PIL import Image max_iteration = 1000 x_center = -1.0 y_center =  0.0 size = [...]

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