07 May 2008
Mandelbrot set fractal generator
for Nokia s60 phones
 This small script is a Fractal generator written in the Python programming language. It generates the most widely recognized fractal (the Mandelbrot set) on a Nokia S60 mobile phone.
This code was inspired by the original Fractint program. It's amazing to see this program run quicker on an mobile phone (Nokia e90) than it did on a i386 machine in the early 1990's...
If you know about fractals, you may have seen nice pictures about the famous Mandelbrot or Julia sets.
In fact, there have existed a lot of fractal galleries on the Internet, just hit some search engine and it will give you a variety of spectacular computer generated virtual arts about fractals. And there also exist Java applets and stand-alone apps which display the beauty of fractals dynamically.
Mandelbrot set is one of the most intricate and beautiful images in all of mathematics, discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1980. Most people within the mathematics community, and many people outside of the discipline, have seen this image and have marvelled at its geometric intricacy.
The Mandelbrot set has become popular outside mathematics both for its aesthetic appeal and for being a complicated structure arising from a simple definition. Benoît Mandelbrot and others worked hard to communicate this area of mathematics to the public. Unfortunately, only a few of these people are acquainted with the equally beautiful mathematics that lurks behind this image.
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