mandelbrot set
nounA special shape made of tiny dots that looks like a wiggly blob with little copies of itself.
We zoomed into the Mandelbrot set on the computer and saw swirls that looked like tiny copies of the whole shape.
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2. A famous picture used to show how simple math rules can make endless complicated patterns.
The teacher showed the Mandelbrot set to explain how repeating a rule can create surprising designs.
3. A set of points in the complex plane that stay small when you keep squaring and adding them.
In math class we learned that points inside the Mandelbrot set never fly off to infinity.
4. A popular example of a fractal that looks almost the same when you zoom in.
Artists love the Mandelbrot set because zooming in reveals new shapes that look like the original.