Is this just some "besserwisser"-talk or might it imply that images containing minibrots/midgets (and there certainly are a *lot* of those on the Net and in the litterature) are just artifacts from some weird bug in the floating-point algorithms?
The fact that the main cardoid itself stems from a very simple formula make it seem, if not probable so at least possible, that some oddities in the FPU could produce unexpected results.
I find this a bit disturbing. Could anyone please care to comment?
The Mandelbrot set comes from a very simple calculation. If you really want to, it's quite possible to sit down with pencil and paper and draw the M-set yourself, the oLd-SkHOoL way... It has nothing to do with bugs in floating-point algorithms. (If it did, I imagine computer's wouldn't work terribly well! Besides, FractInt for example has a fixed-point algorithm that produces the exact same results.) Plus there are mathematical explainations for the frequent occurrance of these figures - explanations that have nothing to do with floating-point bugs or anything else... Thanks. Andrew. PS. If there a Guinniss Book for Records entry to the highest-resolution M-set ever plotted by hand? If there isn't, there should be!!