plot of the day: Jeff Tupper's Self-Referential Formula

Jan 18, 2007 00:38

Graph the set of points (x, y) such that


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radium January 18 2007, 10:21:00 UTC
No kidding. And not only is he a joker, but he's masquerading as a (possibly former) graduate student at the University of Toronto!

So I played around with the plot a little (I've cooked up a Mathematica 4-compatible version of the notebook if anyone's interested), here's the plot in context of a hundred vertical cells:



There's a ton of neat stuff to explore here -- here's what happens if you turn the first 17 in the exponent to a 16 -- check out the neat diagonalization that happens, you can still sorta read it if you tilt your head... :)


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