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Generating Fractals Using Complex Functions: What Is A Fractal? - Where Do We Find Fractals? - Fractals in Nature

This document discusses fractals and how they are generated using complex functions. Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves across different scales and are created by repeating simple processes. They appear in nature, such as in trees and lungs, and can be represented mathematically. Algebraic fractals like the Mandelbrot set are created by repeatedly calculating a simple equation and were discovered using computers. The Mandelbrot set plots the complex numbers c where the absolute value of zn remains bounded for any number of iterations of zn+1=zn2 + c, starting with zo=0.

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Generating Fractals Using Complex Functions: What Is A Fractal? - Where Do We Find Fractals? - Fractals in Nature

This document discusses fractals and how they are generated using complex functions. Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves across different scales and are created by repeating simple processes. They appear in nature, such as in trees and lungs, and can be represented mathematically. Algebraic fractals like the Mandelbrot set are created by repeatedly calculating a simple equation and were discovered using computers. The Mandelbrot set plots the complex numbers c where the absolute value of zn remains bounded for any number of iterations of zn+1=zn2 + c, starting with zo=0.

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Eric Wasser & Avery Wengler

Generating Fractals Using Complex Functions


- What is a Fractal?
Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales.
Created by repeating simple processes over and over in a feedback loop.
Often represented on the complex plane as 2-dimensional images.

- Where do we find fractals?


In Nature, In Geometry, In Algebra

- Fractals in nature
Lungs, Oak Trees, Neurons in the human cortex
Regardless of scale, these patterns are all formed by repeating a simple branching
process.

- Geometric Fractals
A rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at
least approximately) a reduced size copy of the whole. Mandelbrot (1983)

- Algebraic Fractals
Fractals created by repeatedly calculating a simple equation over and over.
Were discovered later because computers were needed to explore them.
Examples: Mandelbrot Set, Julia Set, Burning Ship Fractal

- Mandelbrot Set
Benoit Mandelbrot discovered this set in 1980, shortly after the invention of the personal
computer.

zn+1=zn2 + c

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That is, a complex number c is a part of the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with zo=0

and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn remains bounded however
large n gets.

The Mandelbrot set is the complex numbers c for which the sequence ( c, c + c, (c+c)
+ c, ((c+c)+c) + c, (((c+c)+c)+c) + c, ...) does not approach infinity.

- Julia Set
Closely related to the Mandelbrot set.
Complimentary to the Fatou Set

- Featherino

Fractal

resembles Newtons method for the roots of a real valued function.

- Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
http://fractalfoundation.org/fractivities/FractalPacks-EducatorsGuide.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Ship_fractal
https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~thomases/W11_16C1_lec_3_11_11.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

Closely

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