** Use Turbo Mode! (<Shift> key and "Green Flag") The Mandelbrot Set is a really nice looking fractal pattern. Fractals are patterns that repeat infinitely if you zoom in on them. Some Weird History (Just skim read this for fun). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set but the story is by me. What number multiplied by itself equals negative one? No such number used to exist! Then, in the 16th century, an Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano invented an imaginary number "i" and said i * i = -1. Mathematicians do these strange things! Mathematicians then developed a whole set of mathematical rules for Complex Numbers that have a real part and an imaginary part. Much much later, in 1978, the Mandelbrot fractal was first defined and drawn in black and white using a computer by Robert W. Brooks and Peter Matelski. (See the picture on Wikipedia). continued below:
The Mandelbrot Set or Fractal has a really really strange definition ("See inside") and I won't describe it here as it would interrupt my story. I don't know how they thought up such a weird definition. Seriously, some mathematicians must have too much time on their hands. Anyway, French and American mathematicians Adrien Douady and John H. Hubbard did some more study and named the Mandelbrot Set after French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot who did a lot of pioneering work with fractals. With the development of computers, the Mandelbrot Set, could be drawn in many beautiful colour schemes. It was on the cover of Scientific American in August 1985 and has been popular with mathematicians and artists ever since. ------------------------------------------------ I made up this colour scheme for the Mandelbrot Set.
