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Making the Mandelbrot Set with Excel
The Mandelbrot set is one of the most stunning geometric objects in all of mathematics. In this blog post, I will show how to generate the Mandelbrot set below using Excel. It is also an example of…
If you want to draw the Mandelbrot set on a computer, you can think of your display screen as the complex plane. If the orbit gets farther than units away from the origin (you will have to decide on a good ), then is not in the Mandelbrot set; color it white. If you want those stunning pictures in which the black Mandelbrot is surrounded by a beautiful, colorful gradient, you have to do a little more work, although not much more.
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