Ars Electronica Festival · 1987
Zoom into Seahorse Valley
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 1987
Hartmut Jürgens's “Zoom into Seahorse Valley” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 1987, category Computer Animation.
Zoom into Seahorse Valley - Hartmut Jürgens Mandelbrot's set is about the most complicated object mathematics ever dealt with. Its margin is of a bizarre beauty. This is why the Bremen computer graphics of the edges of Mandelbrot's set, particularly of the so-called "Sea-Horse-Valley", went around the world.
About Hartmut Jürgens
Hartmut Jürgens was born 1955 in Bremen, studied mathematics in his hometown, obtained his diploma in 1979 and a doctorate in 1983. Hartmut Jürgens worked as systems adviser for a computing Company in 1984 and in 1985 took over the dynamic systems/graphics…
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