Alex Kelleher's Blog » Math http://blog.alexkelleher.com Psychology, data, future gazing, digital marketing and the internet. Sat, 15 May 2010 22:23:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mathematical Eye Candy http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/07/28/mathematical-eye-candy/ http://blog.alexkelleher.com/2009/07/28/mathematical-eye-candy/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:21:58 +0000 admin http://blog.alexkelleher.com/?p=315 My first encounter with Mandelbrot was when my Dad coded it up on a Commodore 64 (yes, let the nostalgia begin).  The math didn’t mean much to me then, but the pictures were nice.  Or at least I thought they were, they looked something like this:

Mandelbrot_set

The thing about this type of maths is that it’s “self similar” – when you zoom in, you get the same shape over and over again, as in the animation below (courtesy of Wikipedia).  That happens in nature in everything from flowers to skin wrinkling.

Mandelbrot_zoom

So I was pretty intrigued when I found this site, which uses similar math to generate images – and suitably updated for today’s digital eye:

covers4

That’s it.  Mathematical eye-candy.

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