Wikipedia:POTD column/April 3, 2006



The Buddhabrot is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set, which resembles, to some extent, certain depictions of the Buddha. Mathematically, the set consists of the set of points c in the complex number plane for which the iteratively defined sequence


 * $$z_{n+1} = {z_n}^2 + c$$

with z0 = 0 does not tend to infinity.''

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