I was reading "Ghost from the Grand Banks" (Arthur Clarke), and wondered how much faster Mandelbrots render on modern CPUs as compared to my Mac II last time I looked at it.
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> 3D Mandelbrot: This gets my nomination for coolest video yet!
For those of us who are mathematically challenged, this helps explain a Mandelbrot (and maybe why wagga wrote the above): Wikipedia: Mandelbrot set ...Makes my head hurt. :-|
> Besides, it's Pi Day today. www.piday.org/ 3/14 -- π (pi) ... Too bad their website is not working. ...or maybe it is overloaded with too many hits.
> 3D Mandelbrot: This gets my nomination for coolest video yet!
For those of us who are mathematically challenged, this helps explain a Mandelbrot (and maybe why wagga wrote the above): Wikipedia: Mandelbrot set ...Makes my head hurt. :-|
> Besides, it's Pi Day today. www.piday.org/ 3/14 -- π (pi) ... Too bad their website is not working. ...or maybe it is overloaded with too many hits.
You all know that the most interesting man in the world can recite pi, Backwards!
> 3D Mandelbrot: This gets my nomination for coolest video yet!
For those of us who are mathematically challenged, this helps explain a Mandelbrot (and maybe why wagga wrote the above): Wikipedia: Mandelbrot set ...Makes my head hurt. :-|
> Besides, it's Pi Day today. www.piday.org/ 3/14 -- π (pi) ... Too bad their website is not working. ...or maybe it is overloaded with too many hits.
Another source with an easy explanation of it all: