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Tue 3 Feb, 2004 06:11 am
He was the first to find the mathematical principles behind fractals and that sort of stuff. Check out
Google, for they have stopped pushing their IPO to honour the man.
Gotta feel sorry for him, in WWI he had his nose shot off. He spent the rest of his life (till 1978) wearing a sort of leather patch thing to cover it up. Sort of a proto-MJ, but smart.
OK. OK. The man had no nose. How did he smell?
fractyls are great...
Nobody nose how he smells...
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Kind of wondering,
Is a "fractal" what you see in a "kaliedoscope"? Y'know, that telescope looking "toy" that shows pretty pictures when you turn it in the light.
akaMechsmith wrote:Kind of wondering, is a "fractal" what you see in a "kaliedoscope"? Y'know, that telescope looking "toy" that shows pretty pictures when you turn it in the light.
No, a kaleidoscope works on three mirrors reflecting an image created by rotating the pane holding the beads, glass, etc. Fractals are the mathematics of complex geometrical shapes:
Quote:For centuries mathematicians rejected complex figures, leaving them under a single description: formless. For centuries geometry was unable to describe trees, landscapes, clouds, and coastlines. However, in the late 1970s a revolution of our perception of the world was brought by the work of Benoit Mandelbrot. He introduced and developed the theory of fractals -- figures that were truly able to describe these shapes.
So would I be correct in saying that a mathmetician could use "fractals" to describe the shapes seen in a kaliedoscope much in the same way as a surveyer would use "rods" or meters to describe a landscape?
The idea of a kaleidoscope is to produce an image that is endlessly reflecting. You could use fractals to describe a bead or item found in the kaleidoscope, but the image is just a straight reflection, identical apart from being reversed.
Very cool, Mr.
Thanks for the post.
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