Calculating the Mandelbrot set is quite slow, but there are a lot of tricks to speed it up. When speeding up any code, the first step (after making the code correct, of course) is to look at the ...

The Mandelbrot set has its origin in complex dynamics, a field first investigated by the French mathematicians Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia at the beginning of the 20th century. This fractal was ...

When faced with an FPGA, some people might use it to visualize the Mandelbrot set. Others might use it to make CPUs. But what happens if you combine the two? [Michael Kohn] shows us what happens with ...