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throwawaymath
on May 31, 2019
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Generating the Mandelbrot Set
When you begin with
z
=
k
i
- 0.75, you can obtain an arbitrarily good approximation of pi by multiplying the
p
for which
f_p(z) = z^2 + z
diverges by
k
. The approximation increases in precision as
k
tends to 0.
There's a neat video explaining it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vY0CKYhPY
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There's a neat video explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vY0CKYhPY