Today I found out about **Buddhabrots**. Buddhabrots are an alternative visualization of the Mandelbrot set based not on time to escape but rather how many times a point is visited on the way to escape. ---- [Wikipedia article on Buddhabrots](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot). ---- My first attempt (using Python): ![Buddhabrot](http://f.cl.ly/items/0t1e2u0F3V1U2r3p3u3K/buddhabrot.png) ---- [Annotated CoffeeScript for generating an in-browser Buddhabrot](http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/buddhabrot/docs/buddhabrot.html). ---- An attempt at using three channels to simultaneously show 50, 500 and 5,000 iterations: ![false colour buddhabrot](http://f.cl.ly/items/1B3D3X1C1j0H0k1R0H1e/buddhabrot.png)