Just found a real Mandelbrot fractal happily flourishing in its natural habitat... 😁

[skry@mastodon.social]

@baillehache_pascal Looks like wild ginger to me. If so you can smell in order to tell after it has more leaves.

It does look like the Julia set, but I didn’t realize that until you mentioned it.

[baillehache_pascal@hachyderm.io]

@hanscees maybe... You're clearly much more savvy than I am about botanic ! It was a very tall coniferous tree, that's all I can confidently say !

[marinheiro@ciberlandia.pt]

@baillehache_pascal Is it accidental or something about growth processes, like L-systems?

[darkoptimism@mstdn.social]

@baillehache_pascal

Little bit of maths trivia I learned recently — the "B ." in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoît B. Mandelbrot.

[baillehache_pascal@hachyderm.io]

@DarkOptimism

[baillehache_pascal@hachyderm.io]

@marinheiro There was a lot of other leaves of that same plant there. All displayed the same kind of pattern, but this one only was strikingly similar to the fractal. So... growth process leading to something very very roughly mandelbrotish plus, accidentally this one happened to be mandelbroty enough to catch my eye and take the internet by storm apparently ?

[darkoptimism@mstdn.social]

@baillehache_pascal

And I literally just discovered this:

"Mandelbrot was a bit of a rebel in the mathematical community ... He also added the middle initial ‘B’ to his name himself, even though it did not actually stand for anything."
(https://math-soc.com/biographies/benoit-mandelbrot/ )

So I think this was actually HIS joke!

Or maybe he just set it up and left it out there for someone to discover, just like he found fractals waiting out there in the universe ️

This man was a DUDE!!!

[fletcherthemoose@mastodon.social]

@baillehache_pascal Adding a fractal of this to my beef mandelbroth

[baillehache_pascal@hachyderm.io]

@fletcherthemoose
Bon appétit !

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@baillehache_pascal Haha, sorry!

[francoisprague@mastodon.social]

@baillehache_pascal broccoli romanesco is loving it

[numodular@c.im]

@baillehache_pascal Permission to name it: HowieMandelBrotBest ???