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Mandelbrot (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 59 points 6 months ago

Resolution limits

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 54 points 6 months ago

Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 10 points 6 months ago

It would still take a while to edge individual blades of grass

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

I actually met Benoit Mandelbrot when I was an intern at IBM's T. J. Watson research center in the late '80s. I was randomly walking around the building and passed by a tiny office with "B. Mandelbrot" on the door. I stuck my head in, saw an old bald dude sitting there and said "are you the Bernard Mandelbrot?" He said "yes" and I said "oh" and walked on. Apparently he didn't hear that I said "Bernard" instead of "Benoit".

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 46 points 6 months ago

What does the 'B' in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago

'I'm so meta even this acronym'

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

this is a draft, the cartoonist is still working on the third panel

[-] QProphecy@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

The devil is in the details.

[-] prof@infosec.pub 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Semi related: There's a cool rabbit hole you can dive into when it comes to coastline lengths of some countries. Specifically the UK.

Depending on who measured the coastline and with which method the results can be wildly different because there's always some form of simplification required. See this video for example: Link

[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Try Canada on for size.

[-] khuldraeseth@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not a ~~mathematician~~ fractologist. Does the boundary have infinite length, or just infinite detail?

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 23 points 6 months ago

Yes

[-] Subverb@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It can't have infinite length without infinite detail if you think about it.

[-] Bolt@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not in a finite space, no. But it could have infinite detail without infinite length (like the square with corners folded in to approximate a circle).

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 6 months ago

Mandlebrotwurst. Infinite sausage.

[-] 42yeah@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

Don’t look closer, or you won’t be able to come out ever again.

[-] comrade19@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Can someone explain pls

[-] Frenchy@aussie.zone 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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@lemmy.world 12 points 6 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@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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