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Fractals in my coffee.
I always suspected there were fractals in my coffee. Nice to see a team of Japanese scientists suspected the same, and wrote a paper about it. image by mkw87
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Fractals, art and Jackson Pollock.
Despite having died before chaos and fractals were even discovered, Jackson Pollock apparently made use of them in his work. ‘Rather than mimicking nature, he adopted its language – fractals – to build his own patterns’ is the claim made … Continue reading
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Fractals, chaos, and bed sheets.
Read about fractals enough, and you begin to see them everywhere: in drapery and in gutters, in sand dunes and snow drifts. You see them in the ice frozen on a pond. You see them in the pattern of sunlight … Continue reading
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A Hand of God moment.
I live for the sort of moments you can’t simply ‘order up’: the silver of ice on trees sunlit after a storm; the color of the sky at dusk in December; shadows of fast-moving clouds silently thrashing across a field … Continue reading
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