Mandelbrot set · escape time
|z| escape radius 4 · max n = 140 · scale 1.40e+0
Every pixel is a complex number c. The square-and-add loop either stays bounded (black interior) or escapes to infinity; the colour counts how many steps that took. The same self-similar branching appears in coastlines, lightning, river deltas and lung airways.
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