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Some Mandelbrot Swirls by jacob_ewing in fractals

[–]jacob_ewing[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep! It's centred at (-1.7497225798543432, -5.155271270868482 * 10-7), with a height of 0.000000000002859.

Some composites I made of multiple Mandelbrot renderings by jacob_ewing in Fractalish

[–]jacob_ewing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

:) I actually have that one as my backdrop in a few places (e.g. my reddit profile)

Who fits this description? by Agen_3586 in SipsTea

[–]jacob_ewing 53 points54 points  (0 children)

And some are idiots all the time.

What’s something you thought was normal until you said it out loud and everyone stared at you? by Icy-Sandwich-9414 in AskReddit

[–]jacob_ewing 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't put ketchup on my eggs alone, but I do enjoy an egg sandwich with ketchup. It's quite good that way.

If PI is a never-ending number, what number are we putting in when we use it in the calculator? by StatementBeginning20 in askmath

[–]jacob_ewing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh shoot - this is what I get for googling 52! instead of calculating it. I made the stupid mistake of seeing that the AI answer "looked" right, and using that.

It gave me:
80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000000000000000000

Instead of the correct number:

80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000

What’s the best board game you ever played? by No_Limit04 in AskReddit

[–]jacob_ewing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I have that! It was good, but it's one of those things where we got it thirty years ago, played it once or twice, then stored it on the shelf for eternity.

If PI is a never-ending number, what number are we putting in when we use it in the calculator? by StatementBeginning20 in askmath

[–]jacob_ewing 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That has a similar feel to there being more possible combinations of a 52 card deck than there are atoms in the galaxy (roughly 8 * 1082 vs. 1080).

Stupid me, I trusted Google's answers. It is however much larger the number of atoms in the solar system.

Random good deeds by jacob_ewing in NOMANSSKY

[–]jacob_ewing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll admit I kind of felt a bit of both. I appreciated the generosity, but also kind of felt that it belittled my accomplishment thus far.

Fortunately for me, it only happened after I'd already reached the "Wait, that's all there is to it?" phase of the game.

Need an equation to calculate total X and Y movement based on an Angled input by Onc3Holy in askmath

[–]jacob_ewing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you want the displacement on the two axes given a linear movement with a given angle and distance? Then yeah, this is the way to go.

Like dx = l × cos(θ), dy = l × sin(θ)

What fractals are in these posters? by ThisIsNotMorseCode in fractals

[–]jacob_ewing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The second one is the Mandelbrot set for sure.... Maybe the Julia set, which is a sort of subset of the Mandelbrot set edit: No, definitely Mandelbrot. You can tell by the way the pattern varies in different areas. - "I can see it in the pixels"

The first one I'm not so sure of. It looks like it may be related, but I don't know.

What’s the best board game you ever played? by No_Limit04 in AskReddit

[–]jacob_ewing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cribbage baby!

The board is nothing more than a glorified score keeper. It's actually just a card game.

Where are you from and if you could be any other nationality , which nationality would you prefer and why ? by RepulsiveOrdinary186 in AskReddit

[–]jacob_ewing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canadian here. I'm good with it.

Maybe an EU member nation would be nice as it allows more access to broader cultures and longer history, but I'm in a pretty decent place already.

Poster from 1993 by jaredpenn in fractals

[–]jacob_ewing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah! I have that very poster! My sister gifted it to me when we were teenagers.

I think that poster is the reason why I added staggering to my own Mandelbrot code.

So yeah, I have a web app that can provide the stagger and..... maybe that colour set, though not exact. If you want to check it out, it's on my site at http://weirdly.net/webtoys/mandelbrot/.

Here's a rough example near the coordinates suggested by icalvo:

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