Question

The cover of Heart's album Jupiters Darling features this object, which is described as “a Rorschach test on fire” and “a heart-shaped box of springs and wire” in a 2004 song by Jonathan Coulton. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this not-strictly-self-similar fractal named for the Polish-French mathematician who coined the term “fractal.”
ANSWER: Mandelbrot set
[10h] The “pararibulitis” (PAIR-ah-rib-yoo-LIE-tiss) sufferer Amanda L. Brotzman has many hallucinations featuring the Mandelbrot set in this Max Landis BBC America show, whose title character contends with Project Blackwing and the Rowdy 3.
ANSWER: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
[10m] A 3D analogue of the Mandelbrot set called the Mandelbulb is a recurring motif in this 2018 film, whose protagonist encounters a Mandelbulb-shaped alien that creates a doppelgänger of her at the center of the Shimmer.
ANSWER: Annihilation

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