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General Interest:Fractals:CCL

Sunrise on Io by David Ben-Zvi and Paul Burchard

  
This is an image of a two dimensional slices of the cubic connectedness locus. The locus (CCL for short) is a four-dimensional analog of the Mandelbrot set. This picture appeared in the October 1993 issue of Scientific American, along with "Black Hole". (See also the long description.)

How to make it: This picture was created using the program "Brot", written at the Geometry Center by Linus Upson and Christine Heitsch.

Image created: summer, 1993

[Sunrise on Io]

Copyright © summer, 1993 by The Geometry Center, Univerity of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
For permission to use this image, contact permission@geom.umn.edu.

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