MetaFilter posts tagged with fractals

Gestalt: Director's Cut

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:41:35 -0800

The sublime fractal-based short film Gestalt (previously) has been re-rendered in high definition. Go forth and iterate.

Also, don't miss Fleischfilm's newer, and similarly unnerving Energie! - also in HD. In case you lose patience, it really starts to blow up around the minute mark. I'd also like to take this opportunity to request that the community to post any interesting fractal (or mathematical whatnot) based films that have come up lately. I know you would have anyway, but we may as well make the party official.

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.

Would you like to buy an fuzzy multi-instanton knot?

escabeche — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:56:25 -0800

"...the best place to hide bulls**t is in a refereed journal that’s not open-access!" The math-physics blog n-category cafe digs into the curious case of M.S. El Naschie. El Naschie is editor-in-chief of the journal Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals, published by the well-respected scientific publisher Elsevier and sold to academic libraries for US$4,520 a year. The problem? El Naschie has published 322 of his own papers in the journal -- papers that John Baez (of "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics" and "The Crackpot Index") describes as "vague, dreamlike imagery," "undisciplined numerology larded with impressive buzzwords," and "total baloney." Is El Naschie a reverse Sokal? Or a Markov process for producing random publishable papers? One thing's for sure -- he knows how to cure cancer.

you really should watch this.

plexi — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:56:58 -0800

Hunting the Hidden Dimension. You may be familiar with fractals, but in this PBS Nova episode, divided online into 5 parts, fractals go beyond the impossible zoom of the Mandelbrot set. Scientists are using fractals to describe complex natural occurrences, like lava, capillaries, and rain forests. In part 5, scientists measure one tree in the rain forests, and the distribution of small and large branches mirror the distribution of small and large trees. Fractals, it seems, are nature.

My eyes!

owhydididoit — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:29:55 -0800

Paul Nylander's home page is garish and busy, but full of interesting tidbits about fractals, insects, physics, and other things.

Lovely, edible fractals.

signal — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:21:35 -0800

Sierpinski Cookies. Also: Fimo Fractals.

Cut The Knot

parudox — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:52:10 -0800

Interactive mathematics miscellany and puzzles, including 75 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, an interactive column using Java applets, and eye-opening demonstrations. (Actually, much more.)

strange attractors

nickyskye — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:54:50 -0800

Chaoscope fractals showcase the beauty of chaos. Flame fractals.

Gallery

Kwantsar — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:38:48 -0800

Riemann's Curve , Airfoils, Complex Roots, More.

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.

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.

fractal desktop

obeygiant — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:03:09 -0800

Here are some nice fractal desktop pictures.

They're not just for breakfast!

WolfDaddy — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:08:38 -0800

Fractal Eggs and how to make them.

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.)

tune smithy !

svidrigailov23 — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:40:51 -0800

tune smithy ! Create beautiful snowflake like fractal music.

4-D fractal film

signal — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:21:07 -0800

Video: 4-dimensional quaternions (group of fractals) are visualized by projecting them into three-dimensional space. (x[n+1]=x[n]^p, baby.

Buddhabrot

homunculus — Wed, 04 Feb 2004 18:07:16 -0800

The Buddhabrot Set is a re-visualization of the Mandelbrot Set, created with a rendering technique invented by Melinda Green, who further extended it to create the Buddhagram. [Via MonkeyFilter.]

fractals

crunchland — Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:24:08 -0800

fractal-recursions... huge gallery of images and animations made with ultra-fractal (for windows).

Morphic — Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:46:49 -0800

Who would guess that art and insects and spiders can go hand in hand? We have art made using insect larvae, mygalomorph patterns, fractal insects, cool insects for sale, virtual insect art, and insect and spider stamps. What's you favorite insect art?

Morphic — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:50:56 -0800

Recreational mathematics and fractal graphics continue to stimulate the mind and foster student interest in mathematics. Some favorite authors & books in this area include: Martin Gardner's books (like The Colossal Book of Mathematics and The Night is Large), Cliff Pickover's books (like The Mathematics of Oz and The Zen of Magic Squares), Calvin Clawson's Mathematical Mysteries, Ian Stewart's books and puzzles, and Ivars Peterson's writings (like Islands of Truth). What are your favorite books and web sites in this area for stretching the mind and eye?

walrus — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 11:04:39 -0800

HOP draws beautiful abstract images and real-time animations, based on "strange attractor" formulas, enhanced by mathematical and graphical special effects. It's a unique interactive fractal generator, but doubles as a cute screensaver if you're feeling lazy (runs in DOS/windows).