User talk:Stephen J. Brooks

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 * No problem - to be honest I'd forgotten all about it. Ancient history -but thanks for the apology anyway :) Grutness...wha?  05:08, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Algebraic numbers
Hello, mr. Brooks. I am a math student from Italy. I'm developing a thesis about Algebraic numbers for my bachelor degree final exam. I totally fell in love with those plots you made of Algebraic numbers in Argand plane (e.g. the one at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Algebraicszoom.png), and i'd love to put something similar in my work. Maybe I'll try to create something similar in Maple, but i'm afraid i'm not so able to use it in order to obtain such an elegant result. Would you mind if i include your image in my thesis (properly crediting your work, of course)? I read the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 and i think this should be fine, but please stop me if i'm wrong... Anyway, I would like to know: what kind of software did you use for creating those images? Thanks in advance,

Daniele P. Morelli (Panurge) —Preceding undated comment added 13:43, 1 October 2010 (UTC).


 * Yes, that's fine - as it says in the license I only require attribution Stephen J. Brooks (talk) 01:52, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

I am also a mathematics student, I'm from the UK and I'm studying for my PhD. I was also wondering how did you make this plot of the algebraic numbers? You said it was all your own work, did you write the software yourself? If so, is it available anywhere? If not, what software did you use? - 17th Jan 2011 Anonymously edited.


 * Yes, I wrote the software in C with graphics output via OpenGL. The program finds roots of all the various possible complex polynomials with integer coefficients.  It's not really in a fit state to be distributed. Stephen J. Brooks (talk) 16:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Would you reconsider distributing your source, no matter how ugly it is? Everyone's source is ugly. I am really curious to know how you did it, however horribly you may have done it. I promise distributing ugly source won't tarnish your reputation. You could attach it to the image itself in its talk page or description. There is also the issue that you could possibly have mistakes, so although the image is pretty, we can't verify its accuracy unless we know how you created it. Thanks! JordiGH (talk) 14:44, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Well OK, if you want. It's at User:Stephen J. Brooks/algebraics/src.  Stephen J. Brooks (talk) 15:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

These plots are absolutely beautiful. Have you ever thought of selling them as artwork? --Matt guthrie (talk) 21:56, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Well done! Not just beautiful, but astonishing. Consider that computers are vehicles that only stop at algebraic numbers. Your pretty map shows that most of the universe is dark and unreachable. Richard J Kinch (talk) 16:17, 28 March 2018 (UTC)