It has a many aspects one would want from a good universe.
Infinite detail. But not "boring". The digits of PI have infinite detail too, but when you don't know the algorithm itself, they probably look just random. Which would be boring. But the Mandelbrot set exhibits many nice patterns one can learn and reason about.
The algorithm that creates the Mandelbrot set can probably be implemented in less than 400 bytes.
It has a many aspects one would want from a good universe.
Infinite detail. But not "boring". The digits of PI have infinite detail too, but when you don't know the algorithm itself, they probably look just random. Which would be boring. But the Mandelbrot set exhibits many nice patterns one can learn and reason about.
The algorithm that creates the Mandelbrot set can probably be implemented in less than 400 bytes.