monochrome scarab lineart

2026-05-12,
of Mandelbrot and matrices

Borage, Tuesday, 12 May 12026 HE
2026-05-12 | 26E12 | 2026-132 | 2461173
2026-W20-2 | Q2 | Verano

white branches and dry leaves, San José, California

2013-08-25 – Olympus PEN E-PL1
white branches and dry leaves, San José, California

EMF – “Unbelievable” ↗

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I’ve pretty much always been enamoured with the aesthetics of the Mandelbrot set – I picked up a copy of Benoit Mandelbrot’s The Fractal Geometry of Nature fairly early on, worked my way through the algorithms in Peitgen & Saupe’s The Science of Fractal Images, and marveled at the images in Peitgen & Richter’s The Beauty of Fractals – I started off with a text version in IBM BASIC and then proceeded to hog the Epson MX-80 for the entire lunch hour as it slowly buzzed through dot matrix graphics, pin by pin

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