Mandala Art Designs With Quotes

Arthur C. Clarke thinks that it may be just a coincidence, "but", he writes, "the Mandelbrot set does indeed seem to contain an enormous number of mandalas or religious symbols, which are found in ecclesiastical designs-such as stained glass windows, and particularly in Islamic art. We find many forms like the Paisley pattern echoing the Mandelbrot set centuries before it was discovered!

Zooming into the boundary of the M-set, we find smaller and smaller island molecules, surrounded by increasingly intricate circular patterns, evocative of Oriental art, particularly in the meditative designs of Buddhism known as mandalas.