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seahorse valley en · PROPN
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The area between the "head" and the "body" of a Mandelbrot set, located approximately around -0.75 + 0.1i.
Acid house music and successors like hardcore and techno had a need for icons and imagery in their clubs that the catherinewheel spirals and 'seahorse valleys' of the Mandelbrot set ideally suited.
1996, Richard Wright, “Art and science in Chaos: contesting readings of scientific vsualization”, in George Robertson, Melinda Mash, Lisa Tickner, Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Tim Putnam, editor, FutureNatural: Nature, science, culture, Routledge, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 225:For example, between the two main buds of period 2 and period 3, going down into the "seahorse valley", there is a series with periods 5, 7, 9[.]
1986 July 14, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Peter H. Richter, The Beauty of Fractals: Images of Complex Dynamical Systems, Springer, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 72:[Alex] Bellos includes a series of striking images of the Seahorse Valley, “the name given to the area between the head and the body of the Mandelbrot set” (p. 198), and he briefly discusses several mathematical stories that the Mandelbrot set informed, currently unfolding with contemporary mathematicians and adventurers.
2023, John Bragelman, “Storied Numbers A Review of Alex Bellos's Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life”, in The Mathematics Enthusiast, volume 20, numbers 1-3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 48:
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