Chapter 23

The Mandelbrot Set

It is difficult to include trees and coyotes in a bibliography.

Figures

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Example Programs

There are several example programs for chapter 23:  download chapter23.zip.

1. ctest.py
2. mandelbrot2.py
3. ctest2.py
4. colormap.py
5. hls2rgb.py
6. julia2.py
7. mandelbrot.py

Exercises

A fun page combining the Planck constants and googolplexes can be found at http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/Tools/GetAGoogol.html.

For more information on Mandelbrot sets, see:

• A. K. Dewdney.  “Computer Recreations” in Scientific American, August 1985,  Volume 253, Number 2, pp. 16-24
• Benoit B. Mandelbrot.  The Fractal Geometry of Nature. 1977, 1982.  W. H. Freeman and Company. San Francisco. ISBN 0-7167-1186-9
• http://linas.org/art-gallery/escape/escape.html
• Colours of Infinity:  Documentary shown on PBS featuring Arthur C. Clarke, Benoit Mandelbrot, Michael Barnsley and Ian Stewart.  It was shown during pledge week here in Salt Lake, when they shrank the credits to an unreadable size.

For more information on computer graphics, the generally acknowledged bible is: Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition in C by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner and John F. Hughes. Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0201848406.