benoit mandelbrot, rest in peace

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English: Mandelbrot set with colored environment. Each pixel is associated with a certain sequence of complex numbers. The index for which the absolute value of all following numbers exceed 1000 increases from each colored stripe to the next towards the mandelbrot set by the amount of 1. Coordinates of the center: Re(c) = -.7, Im(c) = 0 Horizontal diameter of the image: 3.1

Created by Wolfgang Beyer with the program Ultra Fractal 3.
UPDATE: A piece on Mandelbrot at +plus magazine