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18 Aug 2024 00:15:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: It's been a while!  
From: David Fontaine
Date: 12 Jul 2001 16:48:43
Message: <3B4E0B4F.E7BCCEAA@faricy.net>
Mike Metheny wrote:
> 
> Howdy everyone.  Boy it's been a LONG time!
> 
> But, I'm back!  At least for a little while.
> 
> Fractal based off of roots of an equation in the complex plane.  Each color
> represents the root of attraction using Newton's method from a particular
> starting point.  This is just the beginning, and I may have some questions
> to ask as to the best way to neat-ify this type of image (made up purely of
> a crapload of spheres).

How do you use Newton's method with complex numbers?  That's the
tangent-line-x-intercept method IIRC, right?  I saw this same pic in the
book Chaos.

-- 
David Fontaine  <dav### [at] faricynet>  ICQ 55354965
My raytracing gallery:  http://davidf.faricy.net/


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