Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies at 85

[Romain / rXg]

Cool :)

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Andrew Robinson <andrew at bml.co.uk> wrote:

> I remember reading about his work in Scientific American when I was at
> school, and then bravely (or foolhardily if you prefer) trying to get
> a BBC Model B computer running BASIC to draw the Mandelbrot set. It
> actually worked, too - took about 4 hours to render something that
> very vaguely had the right shape (I was bailing out after about 16
> iterations, I think).
>
> Here's a lovely portrait of the gerat man from Cyriak of B3ta:
>
>
> http://i.cr3ation.co.uk/dl/s1/gif/847032b8a331def77529b6a0384db1fe_mandelbrot.gif
>
> - Andy_R
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Romain
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