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I was there too. Plus at the time Mandelbrot was new, as new as Deepdream images are today. So the Alto must pre-date Mandelbrot sets and therefore this demo i
by Theodores 9y ago
I was there too. Plus at the time Mandelbrot was new, as new as Deepdream images are today.
So the Alto must pre-date Mandelbrot sets and therefore this demo is non-canonical, like playing Tetris on it, not possible at the time or even imagined.
- dave_sullivan 9y agoThis reminded me of an interview w/ Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Arthur C Clarke from 1988. Clarke demos the Mandelbrot set and is clearly very excited. If only they knew... https://youtu.be/1srEEbB_vrI?t=18m31s https://youtu.be/1srEEbB_vrI?t=18m31s
- jacquesm 9y agoHawking knows.
- murbard2 9y agoGoogle image did not disappoint https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7d/88/3f/7d883f90086c6e3cafaf2e5a90529066.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7d/88/3f/7d883f900... https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aX9BeN2_700b.jpg https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aX9BeN2_700b.jpg
- grkvlt 9y agoThe Alto was introduced in 1973, but was still available in the early 80s, so there is every possibility that someone wrote a Mandelbrot generator on it since it was discovered in 1980. However it is more likely that this happened on the Xerox Star which was around from 1981 and also after 1985 when the first popular Scientific American article about the set appeared...