Scientific American
Robert P. Munafo, 2008 Feb 1.
A. K. Dewdney
Computer Recreations
Scientific American vol. 253, no. 2 (August 1985), p. 16
ISSN 0036-8733
When this appeared on the newsstands, the number of people who knew about the Mandelbrot Set increased by a factor of at least 10000. It pretty much single-handedly got the whole Mandelbrot fad going. The cover looked roughly like this:
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EXPLORING THE MANDELBROT SET $2.50
August 1985
Here is a better view of the image (rendered with the Distance Estimator algorithm and showing External Angle lines):
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The prominent island is R2.1/2F(1/5B1)S, the 24th-largest island mu-molecule.
From the Mandelbrot Set Glossary and Encyclopedia, by Robert Munafo. Mu-ency index
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