Julia Map
February 2011 | By Daniel Wolf
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Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, BenoƮt Mandelbrot studied the set sqr(z) ? c and popularized it by generating the first computer visualisation. Generating these images requires heavy computation resources. Modern browsers have optimized JavaScript execution up to the point where it is now possible to render in a browser fractals like Julia sets almost instantly.
We hope you will enjoy exploring the different Julia sets, and share the URLs of the most artistic images you discovered. See what others have posted on Twitter under hashtag #juliamap.