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Hi,

I am a professor of AI and have worked on  fractals and chaos for many years.
My theory is that the recursive and compositional representational faculties of mind are built on the fractal basin boundaries of chaos in the brain, but it is hard to prove!

I just launched a new website http://fractalpop.com which consists of a javascript mandelbrot generator which is synchronized to a postscript fractal generator and a RIP for making large prints on a plotter. I used to have a designjet plotter and besides my kids science fair projects, I wrote and would print a tiny postscript file, wait 3 days, and a fantastic artwork would emerge.  My friends loved and stole all of them.

I recently bought a used Epson 7880 to replace the designjet and the fractal printouts are really quite amazing on this "giclee" printer, suitable for framing and supposed to last 200 years. 

FractalPop! (the pop is like in Pop Art) is subversive a little bit, in that it presumes anyone can become a fractal artist, at least enough to find one mandelbrot zoom which is aesthetic enough to want a giclee print.

Feedback on the website concept and execution is welcome. it is still pretty primitive but could get more complex over time as I work on it.
you need to use a modern browser like mozilla, safari, or chrome, it doesn't work with IE yet because it uses the Canvas feature of HTML5.

Thats a shame.   I've tried it on laptops new and old and it seems to work speedily at 400x400, tho 800 x800 takes a while.
What kind of netbook are you running?