Tuesday 8 June 2010

Mandelbrot Canvas...

This Mandelbrot Plotter is something I worked on a little while ago. One of the things I want to do in any language I'm learning is know how to get a pixel on a page. A long time ago it was function 0Ch of INT 10h, then memory mapped displays, and now the wonderful ImageData object underlying HTML5's Canvas element. It's so much more fun displaying a picture than 'Hello World' in text...

I'm also fascinated by fractals, and the Mandelbrot set in particular (since I sort-of understand the maths behind it). It makes me wonder whether it is an invention or a discovery, and just why it is what it is - and whether other inscrutable patterns are just waiting to have some new visual representation cast a whole new light on them...

Of course with it being hosted (albeit slightly oddly on Blogger), I can now claim to have written a 'web app', for better or worse. Anyway, it's nice to be able to put random JavaScript up within Blogger...

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