The Mandelbrot Set

the boundary of bounded orbits, $z \mapsto z^2 + c$

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A point $c$ is inked when the orbit of $z\mapsto z^2+c$ stays bounded; the shading counts how long the rest take to escape. After B. Mandelbrot · “Les objets fractals”, 1975

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