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Old 03-30-2008, 09:44 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BleedingPinky View Post
. Gotta love fractals. I see a cardioid there, r(theta)= 1+cos(theta). No wait a sec, itīs turned around to the left side.
This one is a thing of beauty. It's the set of points obtained by iterating the initial value c in the complex plane, the result of the iteration being bounded; resulting from the complex quadratic: x(n+1) = x(n)**2 + c.

If you run the iteration, say, a hundred times, and then map the magnitude of the result to a set of colors....
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