A Closer Look at Fractals: Part II

Actually, some of these "weird" things are due to the fact the he isn't using a bignum library, or not using it correctly, or doing insufficient iterations.

He's really seeing floating point artifacts. For example, the main antenna IS straight, due to the fact that the Mandelbrot set is symmetric around the real axis. The non-straightness is due to floating point artifacts in his Mandelbrot generator.

I wanted to make a joke to the effect that if you've already looked at fractals once, you don't need a closer look, har har. But in fact that's the point of the article: "The kind of 'infinite self similarity' just does not hold true after a few orders of magnitude." Whether that's true or not is another question.