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[-] Frenchy@aussie.zone 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This shape is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be an impossibly infinite task. https://mander.xyz/post/8966692[More info on the Mandelbrot set here.](https://mander.xyz/post/8966692)

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.

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