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 ...

However, this hierarchy of structures does not repeat indefinitely. Benoit Mandelbrot popularized the concept of fractals in the mid-20th century. A fractal is a structure defined by a unique ...

Though people had long noticed these special patterns by which the natural world organizes itself, the term fractal was coined about 50 years ago by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot ...

The image of the Mandelbrot set is one of the most recognizable representations of a fractal. But what's behind the entrancing picture? In this interactive, learn a bit about how we generated our ...

They replicate very simple processes over and over to create seemingly-complex patterns. The term ‘fractal’ itself was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot, who was also born in Poland (in Warsaw in 1920).

Both Julia sets and the Mandelbrot sets have a fractal-like structure in the sense that they are infinitey complicated. Furthermore, if one looks closely at the Mandelbrot set one sees tiny replicas ...

Utilizing their ‘Java Grinder’ application (also pretty awesome, especially the retro console support), a simple Mandelbrot fractal generator was used as a non-trivial workload to produce ...

Is this the end of the story? In the mid 20th century, Benoit Mandelbrot brought the concept of fractals into the mainstream. Mandelbrot didn't invent the concept of fractals—mathematicians had ...