Steve Trettel
stevejtrettel.bsky.social
Steve Trettel
@stevejtrettel.bsky.social
Math Prof: Geometry, Topology and Illustration at University of San Francisco. Minnesotan, from the occupied lands of the Dakota people.
Some Julia sets are "large" and some are "small": can we tell which values of "c" lead to which? One way to try and get a sense of this experimentally is by just drawing a lot of Julia sets! Let's draw the Julia set for "c" right where "c" is in the complex plane
December 6, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Something strange is going on at a couple points along the animation: near the center the fractal's roughly disk like (recall its a perfect disk at c=0), but if c strays too far in certain directions it bursts into a constellation of tiny dots and almost disappears
December 6, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Indeed, we can associate every point c in the complex plane to a fractal in this way, by drawing the Julia set corresponding to z^2+c. Here's a quick animation moving through these (the red dot shows the associated point c)
December 6, 2024 at 8:46 PM
And of course, showing a wormhole like object means we have got to fly through it! Here's the view of an intrepid astronaut who enters the connect sum tube to emerge over an island: can you make sense of what they see when looking back through the wormhole?
December 4, 2024 at 9:01 PM