Monday, March 19, 2007

Most excellent Monday evening fractal


The nice thing about being a Crab is intuition. You can bypass all those tiresome details that ~prove~ what you're thinking and seeing actually exist. You just KNOW.

And fractals were something I just ~knew~ -- and understood -- without understanding the math.

Make no mistake -- these amazing creations ARE math.

(For a brief history of the math involved, go here.)

It comes down to smaller versions of things being replicated to larger ones, and vice versa, in a wonderful symphony of images. The fractal I offer here was computer-generated.

(A thing which, in itself, is a powerful song ... binary numbers, alpha and omega, if you will, capable of generating so many, many possibilities ...)

I love the idea of endless possibilities. I think that's what life is all about.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a fantastic representation of what you said, endless possibilities.

One get sit there for hours and keep seeing new paths, new directions. Very cool, and very humbling if one were to apply it to our own existence. :)

Anonymous said...

Um, the word "get" really should have been "can". Darn fingers!!!!

Eowyn said...

Ha ... even the Exalted Supreme Assistant Editor of the Universe commits typos *S* ... glad you liked the pretty picture!

Anonymous said...

Exalted Supreme Assistant Editor of the Universe...it's got a nice ring to it!!! *S* think i'll keep it! LOL

Anonymous said...

Ooops, forgot to put in my name!!!! LOL