Mandelbrot and Julia
Rendered in Python, explained in English
Julia
For each point in the complex plane there is a Julia set.
(But there are also many others! The ones here are called 'Complex quadratic polynomial' Julia sets).
The Julia set for point z0, is all points z in the complex plane,
that when iterated throught f(z) = z*z + z0,
stay bounded.
Below is a matrix of Julia sets in the range of -1 <= a,b <= 1, where a+bi = z0.
See the code here
Mandelbrot
The Mandelbrot set is a varient of Julia;
instead of having one z0 for the whole set,
every point is calculated with its own original location as z0.
See the code here
By rendering a lot of images, and compiling them into a gif, I've created this tiny version of a zoom-in animation into mandelbrot:
(But I'm afraid I've lost the script)
The small Mandelbrot thumbnail at the end of every page in this site, is rendered using this script.