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From: anton@sting.Berkeley.EDU (Jeff Anton)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Excluding Mandelbrot set
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Date: 24 Nov 89 01:43:47 GMT
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In one of the books about fractals there is a system of determining
how far away a given point is from any point in the Mandelbrot set.
From that you could write a program which could eliminate pixels from the
set until it can eliminate no more leaveing pixels in the Mandelbrot set.

In that book there are photos of graphics where these points outside
of the Mandelbrot set were rendered as semi-sphears with a radius of the
computed distaince to the set.  Something like a sea of bubbles surrounding
the familiar Mandelbrot shape.

I think the system is not really better than traditional approach and
is more complicated.
				Jeff Anton