seahorse valley
seahorse valley proper noun: the area between the "head" and the "body" of a Mandelbrot set, located approximately around -0.75 + 0.1i.
Proper noun
seahorse valley (plural seahorse valleys)
- The area between the "head" and the "body" of a Mandelbrot set, located approximately around -0.75 + 0.1i.
- For example, between the two main buds of period 2 and period 3, going down into the "seahorse valley", there is a series with periods 5, 7, 9[.]1986 July, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter, The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems, Springer, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 72
- Acid house music and successors like hardcore and techno had a need for icons and imagery in their clubs that the catherinewheel spirals and 'seahorse valleys' of the Mandelbrot set ideally suited.1996, Richard Wright, “Art and science in Chaos: contesting readings of scientific vsualization”, in George Robertson, Melinda Mash, Lisa Tickner, Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, editor...
Forms of seahorse valley
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Questions about seahorse valley
- What does seahorse valley mean?
- Seahorse valley means the area between the "head" and the "body" of a Mandelbrot set, located approximately around -0.75 + 0.1i.
- What part of speech is seahorse valley?
- Seahorse valley is a proper noun.
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