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[–] comrade19 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Can someone explain pls

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This shape is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be an impossibly infinite task. https://mander.xyz/post/8966692[More info on the Mandelbrot set here.](https://mander.xyz/post/8966692)

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 12 points 8 months ago

This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.

[–] Callmesuperman 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From the mandelbrot boundary wiki: "Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

[–] comrade19 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://mandelbrot.site/ Nature is beautiful. :)