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Can someone explain pls

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This shape is a fractal made from the Mandelbrot set. I guess the joke is that the more you zoom in the edges the more detail there is, so doing them would be an impossibly infinite task. https://mander.xyz/post/8966692More info on the Mandelbrot set here.

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This shows the phenomenon pretty well. I like to watch this once in a while to remind myself that I know nothing about anything.

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From the mandelbrot boundary wiki: “Images of the Mandelbrot set exhibit an infinitely complicated boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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Thankyou. Even as a concept I find it creepy

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https://mandelbrot.site/ Nature is beautiful. :)

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