On A Generally Fractal Family – student

student from thus spake a.k.

Recently, my fellow students and I have been caught up in the craze that is sweeping through the users of Professor B------'s clockwork calculating engine; namely the charting of sets of two dimensional points that have fractal planar boundaries, being those that in some sense have a fractional dimension. Of particular interest have been the results of repeated applications of quadratic functions to complex numbers; specifically in measuring how quickly, if at all, they escape a region surrounding the starting point, by which charts may be constructed that many of the collegiate consider so delightful as to constitute art painted by mathematics itself!