Benoit Mandelbrot - Fractals and the art of roughness

A personal hero of mine talks about fractals.



I enjoyed his quote at the end and found it quite relevant to a lot of the work I do on this blog:

"Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules... repeated without end"

The Julia Set

If you look at the Mandelbrot Explorer application in my previous post you'll notice a "generate julia set" button on the screenshots.

It turns out that each point on the Mandelbrot Set has an associated Julia Set. The flash app below moves around the complex plane, in a spiralling motion drawing the Julia Sets for each complex location. Just click the image to launch it!