In this fractal feature, explore the infinite detail of a Mandelbrot set as you zoom to 250,000,000x magnification.

Fractals: A Sense of Scale. By Peter Tyson; Posted 10.01.08; NOVA; So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, ...

In other words, when you zoom in, you will find a smaller version of a pattern you had seen initially. ... Now imagine the fractal would branch off into smaller and smaller details.

Zoom in on the first branches, and you start seeing more detail. Around 166 million years ago, for example, you see that monotremes evolved, followed by marsupials and placental mammals.

Fractals are everywhere. If you zoom in on the point of a snowflake, you see miniature snowflakes. If you zoom in on the branches of a tree, you see miniature branches.

Geometrical fractals show similar patterns at any degree of magnification: No matter how far you zoom in on the Koch curve, it looks the same. No natural object can match that.

At the heart of being a fractal is self-similarity, the idea that each piece appears similar to the whole. Think of how a coastline on a map appears similarly wrinkly across different levels of zoom.

Fractals are exquisite structures produced by nature, ... A bolt of lightning reveals its zoom symmetry for a split second - each branch resembles a small copy of the whole shape.

This fractal viewer is a great way to get your feet wet with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays. The project will give you some experience working with video output, user input, and a whole bunch of ma… ...