The DU Lounge

I found out about fractals, and The Mandelbrot Set back in the ?mid-'80's through an exhibit at the once IBM building's ground floor Museum, was Science, and Art.

Anyway they had a big monitor (? 2 ft x 2 ft) with a "Zoom the Mandelbrot" feature. I think you could go down 10 -12 places in. And you could set the number of iterations, and choose various color schemes. I'd stayed therir default red, green and blue, (the deepest color) for most of it. I realized if I set the iterations higher I'd get more, and more complicated patterns! Wow. So beautiful.

But then on my last regular day I switched to black, navy, ultramarine, cerelean blues, turquoise through white gradations. The curving arms in the ?"horseshoe valley" in those colors reminded me of the arms of a spiral galaxy! Swoon.

I played with this for 3-4 days w hardly anyone wanting to try it. Hours of amazing fun and visuals!
Finally the last day #5 I hardly got to go on it - because Scientific America had just come out with their article on fractals, Mandelbrot Set. Somehow the science people up on the IBM floors suddenly found out about this interactive exhibit, and came pouring downstairs to try it out.

Soooo.... romanesco?
This was fairly after my IBM museum Mandelbrot adventure.
Well, my mom came home with one from the Green Market! I'd never seen, nor heard of it!
But, squeee, it looks like fractals! I laughed w joy - who knew!

Double checking on it to make sure I had it right - they mention it's fractal nature, and fibinnochi feature. 😄👍