Jeff Thompson | Blog » fractals http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:48:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Vol Libre http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2011/07/30/vol-libre/ http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2011/07/30/vol-libre/#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:59:50 +0000 Jeff Thompson http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/?p=1602

Early computer animation (1979/80) titled “Vol Libre” by Loren Carpenter.  Note the Utah Teapot in the beginning.

]]> http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2011/07/30/vol-libre/feed/ 0 Mandelbrot Set the size of the known universe http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2010/01/11/mandelbrot-set-the-size-of-the-known-universe/ http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/2010/01/11/mandelbrot-set-the-size-of-the-known-universe/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:03:07 +0000 Jeff Thompson http://www.jeffreythompson.org/blog/?p=143

An extremely deep dive into the mandelbrot zoom. If the final frame were the size of your screen, the full set would be larger than the known universe.

Via: Chemistry and Complexity (by way of the Make blog)

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