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From: robison@uiucdcsb.UUCP
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Subject: What's a Julia set?
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 17:35:00 EDT
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In the May 1987 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics, p.7, Figure 4 has the caption:

	"Julia sets for Newton's method applied to polynomials of degree 3
	 (small spheres) and degree 4 (large spheres)."

What is a "Julia set"?  Can someone point out a reference?

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	
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