Mandelbrot's Vision
Mandelbrot assembled this collage as a suggested cover design for his 1975 treatise Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension. The profusion of straight lines is an abstract interpretation of stars, while at right are the natural forms Mandelbrot tried to simulate with his own mathematics.
"My idea is that he put these two things together to show the difference between straight lines, Euclidean geometry, and his new invention which was fractal geometry, the broken lines," speculated Samuel. "It was not taken. The editors said, 'This is too much image. It looks too crazy!'"
Image: Benoît Mandelbrot. Collection Aliette Mandelbrot.[high-resolution]
