Burning Ship fractal
Videos
The Burning Ship fractal, first described and created by Michael Michelitsch and Otto E. Rössler in 1992, is generated by iterating the function:
Detail of the Burning Ship fractal
High-quality deep-zoom image of a small ship in the armada in the left Western antenna of the main ship structure
Burning Ship deep zoom to 2.3·10−50
High-quality image of the Burning Ship fractal
Clifford A. Pickover
Videos
Clifford Alan Pickover is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity. For many years, he was employed at the IBM Thoma
In the 1990s, Pickover created virtual caverns from extremely simple numerical simulations that reminded him of the Lechuguilla Cave, pictured here.
Visualization of chaotic attractor. Pickover's earliest books often focused on patterns that characterize mathematics such as fractals, chaos, and number theory. Computer graphics, reminiscent of this chaotic attractor, were common in his early works.
Forest troll. (Theodor Kittelsen, 1906). Some of Pickover's later books often discussed "science at the edges," including such topics as parallel universes, quantum immortality, alien life, and elf-like beings seen by some people who use dimethyltryptamine.