I mean dude, have you ever really LOOKED at your fingers?

February 7, 2006 9:25 PM

It's dactylfractal time....
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies (28 comments total)

Handlebrot set.
posted by brundlefly at 9:28 PM on February 7, 2006

LOL, Yeah!!
posted by Balisong at 9:33 PM on February 7, 2006

does it change eventually? Really cool for about four seconds
posted by donkelly at 9:38 PM on February 7, 2006

I found that to be strangely disturbing.
posted by LordSludge at 9:41 PM on February 7, 2006

I feel nauseated.

Thanks
posted by slickvaguely at 9:57 PM on February 7, 2006

Yeah, that's pretty disturbing.
posted by spiderskull at 10:00 PM on February 7, 2006

(HANDlebrot set?)
posted by spiderskull at 10:03 PM on February 7, 2006

It will haunt my dreams.
posted by smackfu at 10:16 PM on February 7, 2006

Shades of U2's "Even Better Than The Real Thing" video, no?
posted by John Shaft at 10:27 PM on February 7, 2006

you know what creeps me out about that? The pixelization just before the loop restarts. I started staring at individual pixels so hard that my brain popped.
posted by shmegegge at 10:30 PM on February 7, 2006

holy crap, that's weird! and somewhat creepy.

but why?
posted by shifafa at 10:40 PM on February 7, 2006

I started staring at individual pixels so hard that my brain popped.

Yeah, I hear that. Happened to me back about '93 or so, but with Fractint set to colorcycle one of the aptly-named "headache" high contrast maps and a 386 DX 40. Haven't been the same ever since.

Except I can't really remember if it was my brain that popped or the balloon, but no matter, both were nearly empty anyway.
posted by loquacious at 10:49 PM on February 7, 2006

"Have you ever really thought about your hands, man?"

(That's it? There's gotta be more than just some stoner's 30-second eye candy...)
posted by klangklangston at 10:53 PM on February 7, 2006

This is going to be imitated in unholy ways. Koch snowflake...Peano curve?
posted by ryoshu at 11:16 PM on February 7, 2006

Mmmmmm-balloons. Also see zoomquilt

Not fractal, but looping and treeeepeee
posted by lalochezia at 11:30 PM on February 7, 2006

You took the words right out of my mouth, John Shaft.
posted by interiority at 1:46 AM on February 8, 2006

They call 'em fingers, but you never see 'em fing.....



....oh, there they go.
posted by quite unimportant at 2:12 AM on February 8, 2006

i've got hands on my fingers, but those hands don't have hands on their fingers as far as i know. Maybe i'm not looking close enough.
posted by phylum sinter at 3:50 AM on February 8, 2006

That's just horrible.
posted by Orange Goblin at 3:58 AM on February 8, 2006

Quick! Now's the ultimate chance to post the Hasselhoff recursion again!
posted by cerbous at 6:50 AM on February 8, 2006

"Ah've got fractals on mah fingers!"
posted by soyjoy at 7:32 AM on February 8, 2006

Wow, I've never come across a flash animation that actually made me nauseated before. Neat!
posted by gwenzel at 7:39 AM on February 8, 2006

Quick! Now's the ultimate chance to post the Hasselhoff recursion again!

You got it!
posted by 40 Watt at 8:22 AM on February 8, 2006

...sorry. I don't know what came over me.
posted by 40 Watt at 8:23 AM on February 8, 2006

The truth is not one
Nor is it five
But it is both of these things
And at least three more besides.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:47 AM on February 8, 2006

Brought to you by the creator of the Temple of the Spinning Shaggy.
posted by Staggering Jack at 10:01 AM on February 8, 2006

Man, that made me feel strange all over. I was dismayed to find, at the website behind it all, that Belgium does not exist. Where am I going to get my Trappist Ales from?
posted by OmieWise at 10:21 AM on February 8, 2006

posted by Citizen Premier at 7:58 PM on February 8, 2006