Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1924, the improbably named Benoît B Mandelbröt – the ”B” stands for a non-existent middle name – would be so important to the story of fractal geometry that he pretty ...

What do spiders’ webs, snowflakes and snail shells have in common? They all contain fractals: Nature’s exquisite, endlessly ...

Mandelbrot’s revolutionary philosophy, presented in his 1982 manifesto, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, argued that scientific methods could be adapted to study vast classes of irregular ...

Mandelbrot explored this fractal property of infinite complexity in his work, which was then taken up by a digital animator to create extremely life-like surfaces in his films. This clip is from ...

Topics include: What is a chaotic system? What makes a system chaotic? Fractals; drawing fractals, fractal dimension. Strange attractors. Julia sets. The Mandelbrot set. - And more. Along the way we ...

As it happens, these four lines can serve as a perfect metaphor for the infinitely detailed, "self-similar" nature of fractals. In this interactive, zoom deep into a Mandelbrot set, the most ...

But these were ugly and absurd, compensating for their inadequacies by creating an illusion. Mandelbrot’s revolutionary philosophy, presented in his 1982 manifesto, The Fractal Geometry of Nature, ...

He wanted to delve deeper into the world of FPGAs, so [Mike] figured the best way to do so would be to use one to program a Mandelbrot fractal engine. He started out with a goal of creating a 640 ...

Many fractals, like the Mandelbrot set above ... but it took over 30 years for anyone to figure that out Many shapes in nature have fractal-like properties. Crystals show the kind of repeating ...

Even if you don’t understand the mathematics behind it, you’ve likely seen the complicated fractal images generated by zooming in on the border of the Mandelbrot set. [Scott Williamson] not ...