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
Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 1 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 50% | 100% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 6.67 | 0% | 0% | 67% |
Data
| Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | Parth et al. | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| The Passion According to C.H. | Milan et al. | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |