Messing With Mandelbrot is a piece of digital artwork by Elizabeth McTaggart which was uploaded on January 4th, 2014.
Title
Messing With Mandelbrot
Artist
Elizabeth McTaggart
Medium
Digital Art - Fractal Art And Digital Collage
Description
Messing With Mandelbrot
The Mandelbrot set is a mathematical set of points whose boundary is a distinctive and easily recognizable two-dimensional fractal shape. The set is closely related to Julia sets (which include similarly complex shapes), and is named after the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, who studied and popularized it.
Mandelbrot set images are made by sampling complex numbers and determining for each whether the result tends towards infinity when a particular mathematical operation is iterated on it. Treating the real and imaginary parts of each number as image coordinates, pixels are colored according to how rapidly the sequence diverges, if at all.
Uploaded
January 4th, 2014
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Comments (45)
Andy Crawford
Can't say I understand the math angle (hey, I'm a writer and photographer!), but I really like this image. Great work
Susan Culver
This is amazingly beautiful, I really love the sense that the lines are lit from within,the center element is beautiful, who would have thought that mathematics could be so gorgeous.
Pedro L Gili
Lovely, lovely work, Elizabeth! As Mandlelbrot set followers say, it seems as if art and science combine in this algorithm. Such is its complexity, its beauty and colorful which has become the most studied model in the chaos analysis and the dynamics of nonlinear systems, anyone who sees it, even without any scientific knowledge, is a strange beauty inside and its characteristic figure. You made a beautiful allegory in "Messing With Mandelbrot". Once more, an excellent piece!
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