Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Buddhabrot

Buddhabrot

Buddhabrot rendering of the Mandelbrot set
a Wikipedia:Featured picture

Not your usual Mandelbrot set. Note added later: I guess I've messed this vote up by actually writing the Buddhabrot page and not even including the image... :-/ Evercat 00:50, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Self-nominated by Evercat 02:40, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support if rotated 90 degrees. -- Oarih 04:40, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mmm. In the Mandelbrot set article it wouldn't be right to rotate it... Evercat 13:49, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Sure it would be. The assignment of x and y in that order is completely arbitrary, and given that it's named after its supposed likeness to the Buddha when rotated, I think it should be in that orientation. -- Oarih 15:53, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

But then it would be at a different orientation from the other images of the set... Evercat 18:14, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

True, though I don't see the problem. I guess the thing is that I think the Mandlebrot article already has a picture which illustrates the conventional Mandlebrot set rendering reasonably well. If the point with the Buddhabrot is that it looks like the Buddha, then the picture should be oriented correctly so that people don't have to tilt their heads to check for themselves. Anyway, I'm but one person. Others may well disagree. -- Oarih 18:19, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, the Buddha thing is not the only point. :-) It also indicates areas of travel for points escaping the set... Evercat 18:26, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Spiffy. Support. - RedWordSmith 09:57, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Interesting, not sure I understand all the maths behind it, but still visually appealing with a deeper meaning behind it. --Fir0002 11:17, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support -- Chris 73 Talk 14:32, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
• Neutral. Don't care for it, but don't want to prevent it from moving up if everyone else likes it. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 20:29, 07 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Neutral. Surely the Buddhabrot should be somewhere in the article, not just an orphaned reference in the caption... GWO 17:00, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. Great graphic. -- Jpo 18:26, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
• Support - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 18:20, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Support. I took one look at it and said wow. Enochlau 09:07, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Weak support. Its a bit geeky and we already have a good Mandlebrot set featured so I feel I should oppose. On the other hand I think its got a high 'click through' factor, because its a Mandlebrot set, but not as we know it. -- Solipsist 08:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Comment. And I take it we are supposed to be mentally rotating this 90° clockwise. If I rotate the other way, I get a smaller rocket-man Buddha. -- Solipsist 08:30, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Oppose. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 03:12, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)

• Promoted, +8/-1. -- [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 22:12, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)