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Google Labs New HTML5 Fractal Zoom “Julia Map”

Google hat vor kurzem in seinem Labor einen Google Maps ähnlichen Dienst für Fraktale veröffentlicht, in dem man ziemlich weit in die Tiefen der Chaostheorie sowie Mandelbrot- oder Julia Mengen eintauchen kann. Hier mal ein Zoom von mir.

Julia sets are fractals that were studied by the French mathematician Gaston Julia in the early 1920s. Fifty years later, Benoît Mandelbrot studied the set z² − c and popularized it by generating the first computer visualisation. Generating these images requires heavy computation resources. Modern browsers have optimized JavaScript execution up to the point where it is now possible to render in a browser fractals like Julia sets almost instantly.

Julia Map uses Google Maps API, and HTML 5 Canvas to render the images. It will let you browse these fractals in an interactive manner. We hope you will enjoy exploring the different Julia sets, and share the URLs of the most artistic images you discovered.

Google Labs: Julia Map via nerdcore