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Benoit Mandelbrot 1924 - 2010

Benoit Mandelbrot passed away. He coined the term "fractal", an endless shape that can be characterized with a relatively simple numerical pattern, leading to some very beautiful visualizations. It always fascinates me how shapes in nature can be defined with a strikingly simple code.


Image credit Wikipedia.

As an example, an artificially created leaf ( Wikipedia source):