To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Behold the Mandelbulb
Most of you will be familiar with the Mandelbrot Set -- a recursive mathematical algorithm that produces spectacular infinitely complex two dimensional pictures. Well, what if it were rendered in three dimensions? The result would be the Mandelbulb. Check out this site for a full explanation and some stunning peeks inside.
Enjoy and be amazed.