[Mandelbrot Escape Iterations]

I recently worked with AI to remake a thing! I made this visualization back in the late 1990s. Wayback Machine has a non-functioning snapshot from 1997. Back then I wrote it in Java. This one is javascript and C++ WASM. Maybe WASM is overkill, but :shrug:, I wanted to try it out.

Try it out here [Mandelbrot Escape Iterations]. Drag the mouse around the middle, and the edges of the set to see the patterns.

In this version, I made an inset showing the Julia set for the same point on the Complex plane. I like to see the commonalities between the escape iterations, the Mandelbrot and the Julia sets.

The idea of this Memento Mori-related visualization has been bumping around the internet for a while. Then I saw Gina Trapani’s nicely-done rendition of it and forked it to make my own copy. I really like this execution. Plus, being mindful about the time we have is maybe the most important thing we can do.

Here’s mine: [My Life in Weeks]

Derek Sivers suggests the idea of a now page. Seems like a great idea, so here we are » [Now].

First post. Apologies.