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Old 18-10-2010, 09:25 AM
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Sad to loose such a brilliant mind... R.I.P Benoit Mandelbrot!
Personally I'm a long time addict, having made numerous programs to calculate Mandelbrot Sets and other fractals since the 90's.
Very apropos, I'm currently working on an nVidia CUDA implementation with the purpose of calculating the next digit in the area of the Mandelbrot Set. This is a number that is only known with a handful of digits' accuracy due to the immense computational requirements.
Fractals are just awesome, and Benoit Mandelbrot will be greatly missed!
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