Carotid-Kundalini Fractal Explorer

It turns out that if you superimpose plots of Carotid-Kundalini functions CK_n(x) = cos(nx cos^-1x) for different n, you get an intriguing fractal-like structure.

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See Also

• Are Infinite Carotid-Kundalini Functions Fractal? by Clifford Pickover.
• Carotid Function Fractal by Paul Bourke.
• Carotid-Kundalini Fractal on MathWorld.
• Chebyshev Polynomials by A. Bogomolny: these closely related functions show similar behaviour when superimposed.

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© Jason Davies 2012.