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Burning Ship fractal

Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations

The Burning Ship fractal is a fractal in the complex plane, first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Rossler in 1992. It is generated by an iterative process similar to the Mandelbrot set, except that the absolute values of the real and imaginary components of each iterate are taken before the iterate is squared. This absolute value step makes the underlying map non-analytic, since it violates the Cauchy-Riemann equations that hold for the ordinary Mandelbrot iteration. Rendered images of the fractal are conventionally reflected vertically, and sometimes horizontally, for visual effect, producing the ship-like silhouette that gives the fractal its name. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1992 1
first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Roessler in 1992
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Geometric Object 1
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1. Burning Ship fractal (Wikipedia)
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