Make Your Own
Mandelbrot
London Python Group February 2015
It began when I was 11 years old ... I saw this ...
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I wanted to make my own ...
But I couldn't understand this ...
Wikipedia today isn't that helpful ...
I finally got it after 4 years of trying.
"Why didn't they just say that"
"I could have explained it better ..."
Fast Forward Twenty Years ...
I promise ....
1. The Maths is Easy
(school level)
2. And Exciting
(honest!)
3. And Beautiful
Exciting
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Exciting
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Python
Easy
Popular
"Shortest jump from idea to code"
Python & IPython
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IPython
Work in the cloud - from anywhere.
Share your work easily.
No need to install software, configure it.
Use any device with a modern capable browser.
ebook?
Painful!
Google Docs -> HTML -> Sigil
LinuxVoice 008/009
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Ideas / Help
Web-based interactive UIs that work in IPython Notebooks?
Distributed compute for fractals?
IPython over the Google App Engine in Google Apps?
#myomandelbrot
http://makeyourownmandelbrot.blogspot.co.uk
Looking back ... Python 1.5 (1998)
Cloud
IPython
Compilers
Open Source
Linux
4G Smartphones
Google Docs
What Next ...?
Make Your Own
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