Schedule an Mandelbrot Set calculation in Azure Functions

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Schedule an Mandelbrot Set calculation in Azure Functions

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Last edited May 10, 2017

Created on May 10, 2017

This example shows a Power Query script that calculates a Mandelbrot set by sending a POST request to an Azure Functions HTTP endpoint. The code defines a URI with a query parameter for the authentication code, constructs a JSON body specifying the coordinate bounds (XMin, YMin, XMax, YMax) and a resolution of 1000, then uses `Web.Contents` to post the request with a JSON content type header. The response, parsed via `Json.Document`, contains the resulting set. The visualization demonstrates how to offload compute-intensive fractal generation to a serverless function and retrieve the outcome as structured data.

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