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...i'm not sure these guys understand the difference between "fractal" and "not a fractal"

• nkoren 15y ago
  Er... did you mean to leave this comment on some other article? I've seen the term "fractal" misused recently, but this is very much a fractal.
  • djtriptych 15y ago
    OK I concede it meets a definition of fractal. I'm recalling having seen Mandelbrot speak at my high school and identify a property of his eponymous set in particular: that no matter how closely you zoom, no part of it ever appears to be a straight line, unlike, for instance, a circle. I just feel cheated. But sure, it's a fractal capped at a disappointingly low number of iterations. Kinda like how an equilateral triangle is a sierpinski's gasket at zero iterations.
    • m_for_monkey 15y ago
      Try the desktop version, this is a very limited alpha. But no, not even the desktop version offers unlimited precision. http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php