I look for simple explanations online and I don’t understand.
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The Mandelbrot process is a set of instructions for walking around a 2D plane (they use complex numbers to make the description of the math very succinct, but you don’t have to). If you start somewhere on the plane and start following these instructions, one of two things can happen – you either wander around your starting point forever, or you run off into the distance and never return.
The Mandelbrot set itself (the black part in the pictures) is all the starting points where you would end up wandering close by. The multi colored parts are starting points where you would run off and never return. The colors are assigned by how quickly you run off.
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