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The Buddhabrot Technique was developed by Melinda Green and Lori Gardi, who named it such because of the image’s resemblance to Buddha.

This technique derives from the Mandelbrot, and, as creator Melinda Green stated, it is basically “a different way of representing the Mandelbrot set.” What she did was take the points used in the Mandelbrot set and randomize them to get this complex image. It took quite a long time to complete, as the “third eye,” (the particularly bright circle centered at the top of the “head”), alone took an entire “long weekend,” which is presumably three days, to complete. That being said, the significance is that certain parts of this, such as the “third eye,” could not even be seen in the Mandelbrot set, so ultimately this creation has opened up a new way to look at the old information.

This creation is truly magnificent and beautiful, and this Youtube video also highlights the “mini-Mandelbrot” components that surround the bigger and more in-depth Buddhabrot.

Works Cited

Bourke, Paul. The Buddhabrot. paulbourke.net. November 2000. 1 September 2016. <paulbourke.net/fractals/buddhabrot/>.

Computational Art. Metablake. 2014. 1 September 2016. <metablake.com/b/Computational_Art.html>.

Green, Melinda. The Buddhabrot Technique. Superluminal.com 1 September 2016. <superliminal.com/fractals/bbrot/bbrot.html>.