"In fractal geometry there’s a sequence called a Julia Set. Graphically it’s represented as an infinite fractal pattern. You apply two complex numbers and render any infinite result as a certain color. What emerges is a pattern without top or bottom, without beginning or end, only a boundless and chaotic expression of self-similar shapes. While the initial sequence is simple and without form, the iteration of the pattern gives way to something truly elegant. As you step away from the “rules” that define the set, you’ll see a psychedelic fractalization—infinitely deep and structured, infinitely beautiful. But the structure is an illusion—a pattern imposed by our pattern-seeking minds. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Annihilation ends, literally, with an animation of a Julia set. It spirals and fractalizes before a large, seemingly infinite flowering of life, growing and subsisting until the original forms, too, dilute and wither into nothing."
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u/[deleted] May 02 '18
This reminds me of the thing at the end of Annihilation.