Beauty of Roots

By Xah Lee. Date: . Last updated: .

depth of the universe lies here.

polynomial roots crops
polynomial roots crops

i must say, this is the most amazing math i've read in perhaps 5 years.

polynomial roots closeup
roots of complex polynomial.

btw, it took 4 days of Mathematica to compute these roots.

the full resolution image on the site, is 94 M bytes. Some image viewer on linux have problem opening it.

There's a webGL version at http://cscheid.github.io/lux/demos/beauty_of_roots/beauty_of_roots.html by carlos scheidegger.