Meaning of seahorse valley | Babel Free

Definitions

The area between the "head" and the "body" of a Mandelbrot set, located approximately around -0.75 + 0.1i.

Examples

“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[.]”

“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.”

“[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.”

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