XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer

Re:XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer by djtriptych on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:37PM (#3548853)

...i'm not sure these guys understand the difference between "fractal" and "not a fractal"

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Re:XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer by nkoren on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:39PM (#3548862)

Er... did you mean to leave this comment on some other article? I've seen the term "fractal" misused recently, but this is very much a fractal.

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Re:XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer by djtriptych on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:47PM (#3548906)

OK I concede it meets a definition of fractal. I'm recalling having seen Mandelbrot speak at my high school and identify a property of his eponymous set in particular: that no matter how closely you zoom, no part of it ever appears to be a straight line, unlike, for instance, a circle.

I just feel cheated.

But sure, it's a fractal capped at a disappointingly low number of iterations.

Kinda like how an equilateral triangle is a sierpinski's gasket at zero iterations.

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Re:XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer by m_for_monkey on Friday February 03, 2012 @03:59PM (#3548969)

Try the desktop version, this is a very limited alpha. But no, not even the desktop version offers unlimited precision.

http://wmi.math.u-szeged.hu/xaos/doku.php

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