Reverse Engineering for Beginners

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CHAPTER 83. DEMOS CHAPTER 83. DEMOS


83.2 Mandelbrot set.


Mandelbrot set is a fractal, which exhibits self-similarity. When you increase scale, you see that this characteristic pattern
repeating infinitely.


Here is a demo^5 written by “Sir_Lagsalot” in 2009, that draws the Mandelbrot set, which is just a x86 program with executable
file size of only 64 bytes. There are only 30 16-bit x86 instructions.


Here it is what it draws:


Let’s try to understand how it works.


(^5) Download ithere,

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