To: ditch@ficom.net
What a great site! I have collected Machen for years and have most
of the books one way or the other. My cover illo for The House of Souls
is not so bright. But after I had had it for years, I read the early account
of the mathematical object called the Mandelbrot Set in the magazine Scientific
American - and thought "how could that be new, I have seen it before?".
It took me quite a while to iscover that what I had seen in the Mandelbrot
Set graphic had linked in my mind to the Sime cover art for The House of
Souls. I didn't know that this art was by Sime - I have quite a lot of
his work in various forms.
Best,
Ned Brooks
Mr. Brooks subsequently added the following:
I suppose there are lots of people who never heard of the Mandelbrot
Set, said to be the most complex mathematical object known. I can probably
find an image of it to scan in and attach as a JPG file - if you can receive
such things. There are programs to generate it on the computer screen -
I once wrote one myself - but those would be harder to transmit. Ah, here's
the simplest way - look at Figure 1 in the site referenced below and imagine
that it is rotated 90 degrees so the "head" is on top:
<"http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/Fractal/Fractal_Home.html">
* A detail from Robert LoGrippo's cover illustdration for Machen's
Tale of the Horror and the Supernatural , vol 2 (Pinnacle
books, 1976), 2nd printing.
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