The basic program is small enough to write on a whiteboard:
z₀ = 0
zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c
With this set of equations, the computer is not drawing a path that was already there; it is translating repeated complex arithmetic into a shape we can inspect.

The basic program is small enough to write on a whiteboard:
z₀ = 0
zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c
With this set of equations, the computer is not drawing a path that was already there; it is translating repeated complex arithmetic into a shape we can inspect.