Wikipedia:POTD column/April 3, 2006

The Buddhabrot is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set, which resembles, to some extent, certain depictions of the Buddha. Mathematically, the set consists of the set of points c in the complex number plane for which the iteratively defined sequence

$z_{n+1}={z_{n}}^{2}+c$

with z₀ = 0 does not tend to infinity.

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