Popular Culture
- The Jonathan Coulton song, "Mandelbrot Set", is a tribute to both the fractal itself, and to its father Benoît Mandelbrot.
- The second book of the Mode series, Fractal Mode, describes a world that's a perfect 3d model of the set.
- The Mandelbrot set is found on the wings of the fictional Quantum Weather Butterfly in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.
- The Arthur C. Clarke novel The Ghost from the Grand Banks features an artificial lake made to replicate the shape of the Mandelbrot set.
- Hip-Hop artist Greydon Square released an album titled, Type II : The Mandelbrot Set on October 16, 2012. The album is a follow up to his previous album, Type I: The Kardashev Scale.
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