Image: ESA / Springel et al., Virgo Consortium Benoit Mandelbrot popularized the concept of fractals in the mid-20th century. A fractal is a structure defined by a unique mathematical formula, ...

And Mandelbrot himself wondered if the universe is a fractal. If, as we zoom out, we will see the same kinds of structures appearing again and again. And in a way, that's what we see: a hierarchy ...

Image Credit: Created by Wolfgang Beyer with the program Ultra Fractal 3, via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-3.0) It’s called the Mandelbrot ... infinite intricacy, zoom symmetry, complexity ...

By plotting lots of different values of c on the plane, you derive the fractals. This idea of visualisation from Mandelbrot ... But once you zoom in, you can see lots of small irregularities ...

When faced with an FPGA, some people might use it to visualize the Mandelbrot set. Others might use it to make CPUs. But what happens if you combine the two? [Michael Kohn] shows us what happens ...

As Sigmund Freud made very clear, human beings are compelled to repeat patterns—the repetition compulsion. Patterns laid down early in life are propelled forward to recreate the familiar that ...

Washington - Benoit Mandelbrot, a French-American mathematician who explored a new class of mathematical shapes known as fractals, has died at the age ... Every time you zoom in further, you find the ...

GIF of the FractalFactory in action: This program visualizes Mandelbrot Fractal Orbits and Julia Set Fractals for ... view and also detailed view (If concurrency not fast enough) Add zoom feature or ...

Fractals are frustratingly hard to define, but they can be simple enough to intuit: They are patterns that repeat no matter how far in or out you zoom. Mandelbrot didn't invent the concept of ...