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[Canopus]

Check it out

They are awesomely beautiful.



It's called the Julia set. No explanation why that name. It's gorgeous.

And this gem:



Mind bender. I love it! Have never seen anything quite like that -- and the colors, wow.

http://tinyurl.com/9ofya

[edstrick]

The first time I saw and instinctively recognized a fractal was before (probably) Mandelbrot coined the term!

I had (still have somewhere) the "Aeronautical Chart and Information Center" Ranger 9 Lunar map set made from the nested images that that spacecraft took as it plunged to destruction in Alphonsus Crater.

The first 2 of 5 charts showed the crater at low and high resolution... the 3'rd through 5'th chart showed progressively closer and closer patches of the crater's cratered floor.

What I recognized as "significant" in some way was that though the details were different, the 3 maps looked essentially almost the same. The cratered highland material Imbrian plains are a classic self-similar fractal terrain over a considerable range of resolutions.