{"id":1033,"date":"2019-02-26T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/?page_id=1033"},"modified":"2019-02-27T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:21:20","slug":"mandelbrot-julia-sets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/mandelbrot-julia-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandelbrot &#038; Julia Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mandelbrot_set\"><strong>Mandelbrot Set<\/strong><\/a><strong> is the set of values of <\/strong><em><strong>c<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Complex_plane\"><strong>complex plane<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;for which the&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orbit_(dynamics)\"><strong>orbit<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;of 0 under&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iterated_function\"><strong>iteration<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quadratic_map\"><strong>quadratic map<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/wikimedia.org\/api\/rest_v1\/media\/math\/render\/png\/ea17613cecf92dbe8bb5f464a3862b08678ecd08\" alt=\"{\\displaystyle z_{n+1}=z_{n}^{2}+c}\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>remains&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bounded_sequence\"><strong>bounded<\/strong><\/a><strong>. That is, a complex number&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>c<\/strong><\/em><strong> is part of the Mandelbrot Set if, when starting with<\/strong> <strong>z<\/strong><sub><strong>0<\/strong><\/sub><strong>&nbsp;= 0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Absolute_value\"><strong>absolute value<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>z<\/strong><\/em><sub><em><strong>n<\/strong><\/em><\/sub><strong>&nbsp;remains bounded however large&nbsp;<\/strong><em><strong>n<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;gets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Images of the Mandelbrot Set exhibit an elaborate and infinitely complicated <\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boundary_(topology)\"><strong>boundary<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;that reveals progressively ever-finer&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Recursion\"><strong>recursive<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;detail at increasing magnifications. The &#8220;style&#8221; of this repeating detail depends on the region of the set being examined. The set&#8217;s boundary also incorporates smaller versions of the main shape, so the&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractal\"><strong>fractal<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;property of&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-similarity\"><strong>self-similarity<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;applies to the entire set, and not just to its parts.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Mandelbrot Set has become popular outside <\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematics\"><strong>mathematics<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;both for its aesthetic appeal and as an example of a complex structure arising from the application of simple rules. It is one of the best-known examples of&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_visualization\"><strong>mathematical visualization<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<\/strong><a data-external=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_beauty\"><strong>mathematical beauty<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Each point in the Mandelbrot Set defines a corresponding <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julia_set\"><strong>Julia Set<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The images in this gallery were created by Dr. Ronald Joe Record who holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California. Dr. Record&#8217;s research focused on applications of Dynamical Systems Theory, an area of Mathematics popularly known as Chaos Theory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>[foogallery id=&#8221;1032&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><b>All photography and digital photo manipulation by Ronald Joe Record, Copyright 2019, all rights reserved.<\/b><\/p><p><table class=\"wp-block-table\" style=\"text-align:center\" width=100% border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5><tbody><tr><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/mandelbrot-julia-sets\/\"><b>Mandelbrot<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/lyapunov-exponents\/\"><b>Lyapunov<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/iterated-systems\/\"><b>Iterated<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/fractal-art\/\"><b>Fractals<\/b><\/a><\/td><td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/psychedelic-photo-art\/\"><b>Photos<\/b><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mandelbrot Set is the set of values of c&nbsp;in the&nbsp;complex plane&nbsp;for which the&nbsp;orbit&nbsp;of 0 under&nbsp;iteration&nbsp;of the&nbsp;quadratic map remains&nbsp;bounded. That is, a complex number&nbsp;c is part of the Mandelbrot Set&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1097,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions\/1097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ronrecord.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}