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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Can someone explain pls

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 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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