Pickover stalk

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Example of Pickover stalks in a detail of the Mandelbrot set
Example of Pickover stalks in a detail of the Mandelbrot set

Pickover stalks are certain kinds of details to be found empirically in the Mandelbrot set, in the study of fractal geometry. They are so named after the researcher Clifford Pickover, whose epsilon cross method was instrumental in their discovery.