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Title: Are the Mandelbrot Cardoids in fact loose form each other?
Post by: kek on February 21, 2011, 03:21:17 PM
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I was wondering do the curves in the mandelbrot-set ever reach each other? And if they do at wich iteration-point at wich scale?


Title: Re: Are the Mandelbrot Cardoids in fact loose form each other?
Post by: lkmitch on February 21, 2011, 05:21:49 PM
I believe that they are tangent to each other and only touch at the infinity iteration.


Title: Re: Are the Mandelbrot Cardoids in fact loose form each other?
Post by: kek on February 21, 2011, 05:33:30 PM
Is there any way to prove it? And would they all touch at same infinity of iterations?


Title: Re: Are the Mandelbrot Cardoids in fact loose form each other?
Post by: David Makin on February 21, 2011, 11:01:28 PM
Is there any way to prove it? And would they all touch at same infinity of iterations?

I don't think you could "globally" prove it, but anything's possible ;)
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Yes in the sense that for all such points it would take infinite iterations to confirm that they are such a point - of course it would also require infinite mathematical accuracy/resolution.

It should also be noted that *all* inside points on the boundary of the full inside i.e. effectively all the true Mandelbrot (boundary) Set are in fact such points, the problem is that some of the bulbs/cardioids they are part (the edge) of are also infinitely small.