Anton wrote
> > Complex numbers can be expressed in a fairly natural way as colors:
> > do a stereographic projection from the complex plane onto a sphere,
> > and embed that sphere in the color cube.

Jan Walzer wrote:
> What advantages do you hope to get from this ???

Well, the most obvious mapping expresses phase as hue and magnitude
(nonlinearly) as brightness, so one could see from a single picture
"here the function has a high real part" for example.

> > My idea is an animation of the Mandelbrot iteration:
> > frame N shows, as color, the number to which each
> > original pixel is mapped after N steps.
> 
> Of course, I can't say that I really understood, what you want
> to make visible...
> how yould the image look like after that ???

The exterior of the M-set converges toward white (representing
infinity), and the interior jumps around in ways I cannot predict.

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