Tag Archives: Mandelbrot Set

High definition Mandelbrot

Posted on 15/06/2024 by dougaj4

There have been several posts here about generating animations of the Mandelbrot set, most recently at Display Matplotlib animations in Excel, but using standard 64 bit floats you rapidly run out of precision. However, using arbitrary precision arithmetic, and with sufficient … Continue reading →

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Display Matplotlib animations in Excel

Posted on 28/02/2022 by dougaj4

The latest version of pyxll (5.4.0) allows animations generated in Matplotlib to be simply copied to Excel. A spreadsheet with the examples shown below, and the associated Python code can be downloaded from: Animations2.zip The screenshot below shows the simple … Continue reading →

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Computing and plotting the Mandelbrot set in Excel …

Posted on 07/12/2021 by dougaj4

… with Python, Numba and pyxll. As promised in the previous post, this post will look at alternative procedures for calculating and plotting the Mandelbrot set with Python based code. The spreadsheet presented here and the associated Python code may … Continue reading →

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Plotting Mandelbrot

Posted on 15/09/2019 by dougaj4

There are many sites discussing the Mandelbrot Set, but not many examples using VBA to plot the set in Excel, so here is my effort: The spreadsheet (including open source VBA code) may be downloaded from: Mandelbrot chart.zip Note that … Continue reading →

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