Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Yeah, it was kind of funky for me to realize that I was playing with 
> fractals roughly right around the time that Mandelbrot invented them. I 
> think it was within ten years of the invention of fractals I was impressing 
> graphics professors by trying to figure out how to draw them, and I was in 
> college when he started playign with the Mandelbrot set.

  I remember the time when it took literally hours to draw a low-resolution,
low-color Mandelbrot fractal.

  Nowadays there are fractal programs which can zoom into the Mandelbrot set
basically in real-time at a resolution and color depth unimaginable at that
time. How have the times changed...

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                                                          - Warp

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