The Mandelbrot set on Very Plotter

I've added the Mandelbrot set to Very Plotter.

This was a fun project, especially doing various tests and enhancements to improve calculation speed. I wrote my own arbitrary precision code, based on the new-ish JavaScript BigInt class.

It was also a worthwhile challenge, I think, to get the site usable on mobile (tested on iOS) devices, where most interactive JavaScript Mandelbrot viewers I've seen do not work so well on iPhones/iPads.

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Very Plotter

This is definitely not just any old quick project to plot and view points from mathematical sequences. This is Very Plotter.

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Remembering Steve Jobs Ten Years Later

I took this screenshot of apple.com 10 years ago this month. It's remained on my desktop ever since.

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Publishing Permanent Photo Signatures with Blockchains

I really don’t like copyright notices and logos on images. I wanted a way to digitally (cryptographically) sign my photos before publishing them, so I came up with my own method. I also want my signatures to be public and impossible to corrupt, modify, or delete. How is this possible? "Groan," you say, "don't say with a blockchain". Yes, I am using blockchains (oh no!).

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Moon Photo Stacking

A few weeks ago I was out looking for birds to photograph with my Nikon P950. I saw the crescent moon overhead and took a few handheld shots of it. I thought I might play with some astrophotogray stacking software, so I took a few seconds of 1080p video too.

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