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Multivariable calculus students can see that the height function is everywhere differentiable and that it has many local maxima, local minima, and a variety of saddle points. Since every small neighborhood of a point on the surface resembles the tangent plane at the point, the picture is really not a fractal. The image was generated by the Bicubic Spline Contour Plotting. |
