Fractal Explorer

The F# Journal just published an article about computer graphics:
"A fractal is a mathematical set that exhibits a self-repeating structure at arbitrary scales and sizes, and the concept can be used to describe naturally occuring phenomena such as clouds, coastlines, mountains or frost crystals. The advent of modern computer graphics allowed for the complexity and beauty of these structures to be seen in incredible detail by everyone, as first done in the work conducted by Benoît Mandelbrot at IBM in the 20th century. As technology advances further (in the form of GPUs), real-time fractal explorers have become feasible as well, an example of which will be shown in F# in this article..."
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Porting OCaml's Format module

The F# Journal just published an article about translating OCaml code:
" The F# programming language took most of its inspiration from the OCaml programming language that appeared in 1996. Like most members of the Meta Language (ML) family of programming languages, OCaml was bred specifically for metaprogramming and, consequently, provides a wealth of tools related to metaprogramming. One of these tools is the Format module that makes it easy to pretty print code and data in a structured way. This article looks at the work required to port OCaml's 1,329-line Format module to F#..."
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