from the author.... "Here is a nice deep zoom
into the Mandelbrot set. The words "nice" and "deep"
fall a bit short actually. "Mathematical Porn" is a
better description. After watching this video things in
my room started to bend and breathe!! I hope you enjoy
the trip!! The final magnification is e.214. Want some
perspective? a magnification of e.12 would increase the
size of a particle to the same as the earths orbit!
e.21 would make a particle look the same size as the
milky way and e.42 would be equal to the universe. This
zoom smashes all of them all away. If you were
"actually" traveling into the fractal your speed would
be faster than the speed of light." What is a fractal
anyway? Well as you asked I will give you a brief run
down.This particular fractal is called the Mandelbrot
fractal set. The Mandelbrot fractal set is created
using a mathematical formula that involves complex
(infinite) numbers. These numbers are plotted onto a
graph to produce the image. It is named after Benoît
Mandelbrot. A famous mathematician who discovered
fractal geometry. The boundary of this fractal is
infinite. Meaning that when you magnify it, the edge of
the boundary eventually becomes infinity complex.
Buried within the Mandelbrot set are an infinite amount
of smaller sets – that are self similar to the
original. This animation is a journey to a set so
infinitesimally small that if you could see all of the
original it would be bigger than the universe!