Chinahand Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 The book Chaos held me transfixed as a spotty engineer 20 or so years ago and one of the towering heros of that book was Benoit Mandelbrot. He's just died and I'd like to pay tribute to him as a genius who opened up whole new areas of geometry, topography, financial theory, iterative mathematics and was one of the founders of chaos theory. Here's a he did a while ago: And after that how about a fun zoom into a mandelbrot set: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbms Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Yep I have to admit he is for me the one who showed that there is even an order in chaos and nothing can be fully random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbx Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 heh , I remember watching my Commodore Amiga creating a mandelbrot and it taking about 45 minutes to do. Years later I ran a similar program on 386 PC with a 387 maths co-processor and it took only a few minutes at VGA resolution. The mandelbrot set (and fractals in general) are a thing of natural beauty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Years later I ran a similar program on ... The mandelbrot set (and fractals in general) are a thing of natural beauty but do they scale well ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManxTaxPayer Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Did he come back to life then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbx Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Years later I ran a similar program on ... The mandelbrot set (and fractals in general) are a thing of natural beauty but do they scale well ? I'll look into it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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