20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
11:06 p.m.
. Jim Muth say: ""I have not done the calculation, but I suppose that at the scale of today's image, the entire Mandelbrot set would occupy a significant part of the visible universe"" I did these calculations years ago, around the turn of the century. The observable universe spans 10-20 Billion light years, depending on your source of info. Assuming a 19 inch monitor display, a fractal magnification of about E+27 puts you there. Thus your image at E+37 is not ten times the size of the universe, it is ten orders of magnitude bigger, that's ten billion times the size of the universe. Hard to fathom, but numbers don't lie. I actually have a simple DOS program on my site that does this calculation. Stay Amazed! JoTz .