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- noun Plural form of
fractal .
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And then in 1977, Benoit Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, realized that if you do computer graphics and used these shapes he called fractals you get the shapes of nature.
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And then in 1977, Benoit Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, realized that if you do computer graphics and used these shapes he called fractals you get the shapes of nature.
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And then in 1977, Benoit Mandelbrot, a French mathematician, realized that if you do computer graphics and used these shapes he called fractals you get the shapes of nature.
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I enjoyed the mystery and learned some easier ways to explain fractals to my students at the same time.
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The model I stumbled upon, fractals, is borrowed from chaos theory, and I am as surprised as anyone at how well it fits.
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So I got a Fulbright scholarship to just travel around Africa for a year asking people why they were building fractals, which is a great job if you can get it.
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So I got a Fulbright scholarship to just travel around Africa for a year asking people why they were building fractals, which is a great job if you can get it.
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They are fractals, which is basically mathematical formulas transtlated into artwork using the computer as a tool.
imposter ornamint - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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So I got a Fulbright scholarship to just travel around Africa for a year asking people why they were building fractals, which is a great job if you can get it.
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I shall also postpone a discussion of fractals, which is a subfield of chaos theory (dealing with the repetition of the same pattern on different scales, indeed specifically on an ever-diminishing scale).
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
yaganti commented on the word fractals
It essentially means pattern within pattern. For example an advertisement shows a lady holding a pack, on which the picture of same lady holding the pack appears. Theoritically, the pattern within pattern occurs infinitely. But practically, the visibility is limited by image resolution. Altrenately - a process may contain some phases (say conceptualization, planning, execution etc). But in each of these phases, the above phases may again be present till ad infinitum. Figuratively it means a pattern (say traingles) may contain same patteren - and this process may continue ad infinitum
August 7, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word fractals
Cf. self-similarity, scale invariance.
June 5, 2014
madmouth commented on the word fractals
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June 6, 2014