Time for another Mandelbrot Monday. I’ve mentioned before that aimlessly playing around with Mandelbrot zooms gets old fairly quickly. I find that I do it for a little while, lose interest for a long while, and then pick it up again for a little while.

I’m in the lost interest phase right now — have been for a couple of months. I think I’ll cool my jets until May, when I’m planning a series of posts (“Mandelbrot May”) exploring the Mandelbrot set and how images of it are made.

But I still have images from previous phases to share, so off we go…

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For two weeks I’ve indulged in intense 12+ hour days on a self-education project in Python and its Tk module. I plan to write more about that later this week (that’s the plan, anyway).

Intense coding and learning take me deep into a Zen-like mindset that’s hard to emerge from. I have a minor self-commitment to publish at least five posts a month but have yet to publish anything this month.

As I struggle to regain the English language, I thought sharing another set of Mandelbrot images offered an easy reentry. The previous post had images from 2019 and 2020. Here are the last of those (and some from 2025).

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In the Friday Notes from last August, I wrote about needing to buy a new laptop. In the September edition of same, I wrote about installing Ultra Fractal 6 on that laptop and shared a few Mandelbrot images I’d made.

I’ve been sharing two or three in Substack Notes every week for “Fractal Friday”, but Notes is a fast-running river in which things vanish downstream almost instantly.

So, I thought I’d start sharing some here on Mandelbrot Mondays, though I don’t plan to make it a regular thing. I am thinking about a series of posts exploring the Mandelbrot, though.

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