MetaFilter posts tagged with fractal

The thumbprint of God!

mhjb — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:56:08 -0800

Arthur C. Clarke presents a documentary on fractals Direct YT links, in case the main link dies: 1 2 3 4 5 6

you fly around, shoot some stuff, collect some other stuff OMG IT'S FULL OF STARS

juv3nal — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:19:12 -0800

Polynomial (yt) is a 3D space shooter with mathematically generated fractal scenery and models by Dmytry Lavrov with demos available for Linux, (Intel) OSX, & Windows. (via)

I am a strange loop.

loquacious — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:30:41 -0800

Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid has been recorded as a series of video lectures for MIT's Open Courseware project.

Fractal art

Upton O'Good — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:03:37 -0800

40 fractals created with Apophysis, a freeware fractal flame generator. For more fractal art, you can browse the extensive collections at deviantART, the source of all the images. mynameishalo and babymik, two of the more extensively sourced artists in the main link, are particularly worth a look, though all the artists are listed under their images. via Mathpuzzle.

Quest for a true 3D Mandelbrot Fractal.

loquacious — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:58:17 -0800

Quest for a true 3D Mandelbrot Fractal - a very nice exploration of Mandelbrot/Julia set fractals in various kinds of 3D space.

Psychemathadelica!

not_on_display — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:56:40 -0800

How deep does the rabbit hole go? The Ultimate Fractal Video Project features animated zooms into the famous Mandelbrot Set. Some zoom in so far that, by the end of the dive, the first frame you had viewed would be as large as (or larger than) the known universe. | The animations are offered as .zip'd WMV files; lower-quality versions are viewable on FractAlkemist's YouTube page. The author explains: "The 'Universe' viddies are so named because at a zoom depth of E+26, the original Mandelbrot is expanded to approximately the size of the known observable universe, 10-20 billion lightyears. And E+61 is the ratio of the entire visible universe to the smallest sub-atomic quantum effects. So where does E+89 take you? To the Mother of All Mandelbrot ZooM animations! "This one took 8 months to render on 3 systems, all running 24/7. This is the Deepest Mandelbrot ZooM Animation ever made, and ever likely to be made (without frame interpolation, shortcuts, tricks or cheating). It goes all the way to a final zoom depth of E+89, and uses maximum iterations (2,100,000,000) all the way for maximum detail." - - - - - Recommended uses: download a few, put them in a queue on your media player, and let them play on repeat at your next box social. - - - - - This FPP by loquacious points to another cool fractal animation site. - - - - - Bonus: two more cool fractal animations: one with Jonathan Coulton's song "Mandelbrot Set" as the soundtrack, the other with a more baroque flavor. - - - - - There are many more examples of fractal animation out there; please add your favorite links in the comments section.

BrainPaint

homunculus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:11:58 -0800

BrainPaint. Beautiful, real-time images created through neurofeedback by using the electrical activity of the brain to seed fractal patterns.

In Soviet Russia, sponge soaks you

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:37:35 -0800

Dr. Jeannine Mosely finishes building a level-3 Menger sponge from business cards. You can also build your own, though Dr. Mosely warns, "[a] level 4 sponge would require almost a million cards and weigh over a ton. I do not believe it could support its own weight — so a level 3 is the biggest sponge we can hope to build." (related)

What do you do in your spare time?

tellurian — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:54:50 -0800

Mengermania tracks the progress of building a level four Menger sponge out of index cards (related - level three with business cards). [via]

Mandelbrot on Fractals as A Theory of Roughness.

MetaMonkey — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:32:37 -0800

A talk with Benoît Mandelbrot, entitled Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) [video, 80mins, realplayer] about fractals as A Theory of Roughness.

When you touch down/You'll find that it's stranger than known

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:20:08 -0800

300 Miles High

My mom likes nudis!

WolfDaddy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:30:00 -0800

Playing with fractal generators can result in images that remind some of creatures in the natural world. Did you know that the nudibranch ^ can be evocative of certain Julia-set fractals? Especially when you see them in motion. Be sure to check out the "scubadiving" and related YouTube tags for other deep-sea creatures. I especially liked this one.

Little Beauty

MetaMonkey — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:41:24 -0800

Loes Modderman's Science Art
Beautiful microscopic art, often striking similar to some modern art. Dig the abstract crystal images: cholesterol, crystal landscapes, vitamin c is psychedelic. Explore the sands of the world! Bubbles are pretty, plastics rock, fluids are minimalist. (via)

Fractal Bacteria

Gator — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:20:27 -0800

These images remind us never to underestimate our opponent. -- The science behind the art (.pdf). Fractal art by way of bacteria growin' in a petri dish. A few more images here.

Fibonacci's favorite food?

hindmost — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:57:39 -0800

The coolest broccoli/cauliflower you will see today. Those with a green thumb can grow their own but I would be content to merely eat it.

MARGE! You're soaking in it!

loquacious — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 03:34:37 -0800

Fractal animation videos. Tune in. Turn on. Drop in on a dripping skirling-swirling pulsating orgy of self-transforming recursive math. Some with fractal music. (Non-embedded mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 files, like God intended.)

Flame on!

loquacious — Sat, 21 May 2005 23:46:39 -0800

Spore: Recursive-algorithmic-genetic art. More. With some nice videos, too. Fractal Flames. Also see: Electric Sheep, a distributed-parallel-computing genetic-algorithm eye-candy screen-saver thing. More screen-savers. Yum. (via MoFi and pea cay)

Fractal Dream Interpretation

fenriq — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 22:59:13 -0800

Electric Sheep: Collaborative Fractal Generation
Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms.The project is an attention vortex. It illustrates the process by which the longer and closer one studies something, the more detail and structure appears.

You can look at some fresh samples or you can read the Interpretation, watch the Sheepumentary, post a comment, design your own or design them and post them to their server or download a copy and play along at home.
You can even get a copy of the source code to play around with if you're so inclined.

Me? I'm just gonna l o o k a t t h e p r e t t y p i c t u r e s.

At 8 levels deep, I saw David Hasselhoff

Wolfdog — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:24:51 -0800

Fractal Maze, one of the most evil puzzles I have ever encountered. It's documented briefly at mathpuzzle.com (scroll down a bit), which also features a smaller fractal maze.