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 ...

Not just any program, mind you; one that would generate a Mandelbrot fractal on a line printer. The IBM 1401 is an odd beast. Even though it’s a fully transistorized computer, these transistors ...

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 ...

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).

What makes a system chaotic? Fractals; drawing fractals, fractal dimension. Strange attractors. Julia sets. The Mandelbrot set. - And more. Along the way we will look at the historical development of ...

Hailed as the man who reshaped geometry, French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot first coined the word “fractals” to ...