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How to fold a Julia fractal (2013)
- cammikebrown 4y agoI love visual math like this so much. I had a professor at my alma mater, UC Santa Cruz, who made a textbook called “Illustrated Theory of Numbers”, and it’s just beautiful. Marty Weissman, check it out sometime
- tedd4u 4y agoOriginal posting from 10y ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5036235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5036235
- adzm 4y agoThis is an amazing visualization.
- cinntaile 4y agoI assume this is where the programming language got its name from?
- mkl 4y agoNo connection I think: Karpinski said of the name "Julia": "There's no good reason, really. It just seemed like a pretty name." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language) The fractal is named after a mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set
- medo-bear 4y agoMichael Barnsley's Fractals Everywhere is one of the best intro books i found on the subject https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Everywhere-Michael-F-Barnsley/dp/0120790610 https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Everywhere-Michael-F-Barnsle...