One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xerox Alto

Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by Theodores on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:16PM (#14588577)

I was there too. Plus at the time Mandelbrot was new, as new as Deepdream images are today.

So the Alto must pre-date Mandelbrot sets and therefore this demo is non-canonical, like playing Tetris on it, not possible at the time or even imagined.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by dave_sullivan on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:47PM (#14588826)

This reminded me of an interview w/ Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, and Arthur C Clarke from 1988. Clarke demos the Mandelbrot set and is clearly very excited. If only they knew...

https://youtu.be/1srEEbB_vrI?t=18m31s

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by jacquesm on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:30PM (#14590932)

Hawking knows.

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by murbard2 on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:16PM (#14589066)

Google image did not disappoint

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/7d/88/3f/7d883f900... https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aX9BeN2_700b.jpg

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by grkvlt on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:00PM (#14608331)

The Alto was introduced in 1973, but was still available in the early 80s, so there is every possibility that someone wrote a Mandelbrot generator on it since it was discovered in 1980. However it is more likely that this happened on the Xerox Star which was around from 1981 and also after 1985 when the first popular Scientific American article about the set appeared...

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