Benoit Mandelbrot Says "Hello" to Jonathan Coulton

[namelessflin]

This must have been filmed on a potato. :3

[TheFuzzyBlanket]

@namelessflin oh don't hurt GLaDOS' feelings

[Murmig]

Rest in peace, you bad-ass fucking fractal. ^_^

[grimjester88]

R.I.P Benny.

[Cernoise]

Mandelbrot's in Heaven :/

[RectalDiscourse]

@Cernoise

he will be when he's dead

[Lagolop]

He just died this week :(

[MH5]

Even though "Mandelbrot Set" was not, in fact, about the actual Mandelbrot Set. What a good sport!

[spazdor]

@MH5 Yeah, the song was actually about it

from the chorus: "just take a point called C in the complex plane/ let Z1 be C squared plus C/ Z2 is Z1 squared plus C / Z3 is Z2 squared plus C"

that is, in fact, how you make a mandelbrot set

[MrIcePho3nix]

I thought that was how you make a Julia Set.

[spazdor]

@MrIcePho3nix Sort of. The Mandelbrot set is the map of all possible C's you can select which, if you repeated this process forever, the Z's would stay small.

"If the series of Z's will always stay/ close to C and not trend away/ that point is in the Mandelbrot set"

[mst3kbitches]

LOL, Mr. Madelbrot seems like a really sweet fellow.

[dgthall]

OK, well I guess it just figures that his greeting would be so chaotic...

(yeah, I know, but it had to be said...)

Did you play the song, or at least show him the lyrics?

[Halster310]

He knows about the song :) I've seen a picture of someone showing it to him

[sevinPackage]

He'll be in Heaven when he's dead, you know.

[elrapido5150]

Aye. But for now, he shall teach at Yale, which is Math Pre-Heaven. Maybe?

[RectalDiscourse]

@sevinPackage LMAO

[AmbidextrousGamer]

@sevinPackage he is dead. D:

[CupcakeAndTea]

aren't camera magical LOL ^^

[DreamerM]

please tell me someone played the song for Mandelbrot....

Oh man. This is great.

[CousinoMacul]

What a bad-ass fucking fractal!

[TotzthePlaid]

I dunno... I saw more of a Rorschach Test on Fire, or maybe a Day-Glo Pterodactyl... *laughs*

[RectalDiscourse]

@CousinoMacul MORE LMAO