Chaos and Fractals

Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros explore the application of fractal structures to the design of the built environment, and why they believe they hold the key to improving our understanding of and appreciation for our cities. read more  

With apologies to real estate agents, we’d like to say that the three most important factors in design are scale, scale, and scale. One reason is that many of the worst environmental design blunders of the 20th century have been mistakes of ...  

Do you know a program that would allow even a dummy to generate fractal zoom videos? Or do you know a person who likes to generate fractal zoom videos, for free?Got an EP coming out at the end of the month, and would really love to make a fractal zoom video for one of the songs. I started by writing to some of the YouTube fractal video creators, but to date, no one's written back. I next searched for programs, but most of them are so old, they...  

U.K. based band Fractals has uploaded a new pre-production song titled "Embrace Abstraction," which will appear on an upcoming new album from the act later this year. Check out the song in the SoundCloud player below. You can also listen to the previously posted single "The Invariant" over at this location. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com  

Our Daily Train | By Jeremy StyronAs evidenced by some posts on this site, I have recently gotten back in to fractal art, and I usually use either a program called Apophysis or Mandelbulb 3D to perform the renderings. Fractal art is basically a way to create digital artwork using mathematical algorithms, while using the power of the computer to actually [...]  

San Francisco based computer scientist and kinetic artist Brent Thorne’s latest project is a wooden computer that computes continuous self-similar fractals. Thorne’s creation will eventually stand over two meters tall and able to preform calculations, logic operations, and store/load values. He estimates a build time of about 160 hours. You can read more about this [...]Wooden Gear Fractal Computer. More at Buzz PatrolShare on FacebookShareThis  

Brent Thome, a computer scientist in San Francisco, is building a mechanical computer out of beautiful, laser-cut gears that will compute and draw fractals. He's documenting as he goes in a fascinating blog, in which he also recounts his adventures with kinetic wooden sculpture. I've been working on this for a while now. Its a [...]  

We are finishers. --- Fractals are typically self-similar patterns, where self-similar means they are "the same from near as from far" - from wikipedia. --- Agile's "self-similar pattern" is that we finish stuff. We finish big stuff: releases, projects, and...  

Our Daily Train | A blog by Jeremy StyronI don’t think I’ve posted about this before on this site, but, I’m into fractal art. I’ll try to post some more in the future as I make them. Enjoy. These were created using Mandelbulb 3D.  

Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli an ...  

When hungry and foraging for food, albatrosses tend to use flight paths whose patterns remind experts of fractals. What this suggests is that mathematics can be used to predict how these birds fly over the ocean when they are searching for food. In a paper ...  

In "Money Printing's Biggest Show Of All Time" I looked at some characteristics of the quantitative easing mania beginning to grip our global central bankers. The bull market in creative debt we are witnessing in our day can be studied with fractals the ...  

Thus, adding Absolace to a list of bands that were unable to come to play for Indian audiences due to visa issues, one of the most notable of which was British band Skindred. Undeterred, the self-taught drummer who went to Greece in 2009 to ...  

Yes, math really is everywhere. Referred to as both Veronica Cauliflower & Romanesco Broccoli, this fabulous brassica forms fractals! This hybrid is a vigorous grower with absolutely gorgeous lime green peaked heads comprised of small towering ...  

It also applies to art and literature; Jackson Pollock’s paintings are based on fractals, and David Foster Wallace said that his ... The political example my friend used was the Bush-Gore election where everything from the split between ...