Enjoy this lovely nearly two-minute zoom into a Mandelbrot fractal. It’s perplexing and a bit humbling to think that there is an infinite level of detail at any position within this structure. It’s worth noting that, within the domain of chaos theory, all strange attractors are fractal in nature. Fascinatingly enough, a dripping faucet and an arrhythmic heart share the same strange attractor, and papers have been authored exploring the relationship between the two, and how we can apply knowledge of the drip system to improve treatment for cardiac patients.
The following entry is also interesting in the way it illustrates that even within seemingly homogeneous regions of a fractal there are infinitely-intricate patterns.
