Begin Lab 8: Trig, Complex Numbers, and the Mandelbrot Set .
Topics to be discussed this Week
- The map function in Processing.
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Trigonometry
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Complex Numbers, and Object Oriented Programming
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Fractals
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Iterated Functions
Complex and Imaginary Numbers:
- Quadratic and Cubic equations
- People: Tartaglia, Cardano, Bombelli, ...
- What is i?
- What is a complex number?
- Applications: physics, engineering, ...
- Complex artithmetic
- Intuition: What is their behavior? See Processing.
- Exercises from lab.
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