Yes, much of it is apocryphal, or at least wildly innacurate, but it's beautiful. And since any poet can tell you that truth is beauty, and beauty is truth, Wikipedia must be true. Or at least truthy. Ve4cib 02:12, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
For a university course I had to write a program to generate fractal images. The following images have been create by me and uploaded to Wikipedia to illustrate the Julia Set:
Zn+1 = Zn2 + C | C = -0.8 + i0.156
The original Julia set
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 10, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 100, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 1000, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 10000, still centered at the origin
I was involved in the initial creation of the online textbook for the intro computer science course at the University of Manitoba, and gave a couple of presentations to subsequent classes who worked on it.
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The original Julia set
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 10, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 100, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 1000, still centered at the origin
The same set zoomed in by a factor of 10000, still centered at the origin
