18.04 | Fall 1999 | Undergraduate

Complex Variables with Applications

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Newton Iterations

(All images created with MATLAB® software)

Figure 1: Newton’s method of attraction basins for z3= 1.

Basins of attraction for the three cubic roots of unity under iterations using Newton’s method. Each color in Figure 1 corresponds to a root. The complicated boundary between the regions has a self-similar fractal structure: any piece of it that is blown up will display the whole pattern.

Picture obtained using the script NewtonRoots in the Athena 18.04 MATLAB® Toolkit.
 


Figure 1: Newton’s method of attraction basins for z3=1.

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Fall 1999
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