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Stinkerbell
20th February 2008, 08:59 PM
This is a great doco (I found it on youtube, broken into 6 parts) about fractal geometry and how it relates to nature, god , the universe....

It's presented by Arthur C Clarke - search youtube for "colours of infinity" and it should pop up. It's a few years old I think, but fascinating stuff.

Very cool.

CFTraveler
20th February 2008, 09:29 PM
If you have it I 'officially' allow you to post the link. *stamps*

Stinkerbell
20th February 2008, 10:04 PM
If you have it I 'officially' allow you to post the link. *stamps*

Wohoo! :D

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qB8m85p7GsU

This is the link to part 1 - parts 2-6 will be clickable from that page.

CFTraveler
21st February 2008, 03:56 PM
Awesome! I really enjoyed it. A true 'brain tickle'. I give them two thumbs up.

ButterflyWoman
22nd February 2008, 02:17 AM
Excellent. In one of my other lives I'm a digital artist, and I've been working with fractals since about 1998. I love working with them. I love the glimpse of infinity, and the way you can find totally unexpected images in them. They're very "Rorschach-test" in that you can see all sorts of things there...

:)

Here's another video I really enjoyed:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vuyRCfhCZT0

Stinkerbell
25th February 2008, 08:00 AM
Here's another video I really enjoyed:

Cool... The mandelbrot set looks like a Budda to me.

ButterflyWoman
25th February 2008, 08:41 AM
the mandelbrot set looks like a Budda to me.

Heh. You're not alone in that perception. ;) Generally, that set is affectionately known as a "Mandy" or some variation of "Little Buddha". :)

CFTraveler
25th February 2008, 03:41 PM
That's sort of what I thought when I saw it- I wondered if the pictures of Hindu deities sitting in the lotus position didn't come from some ancient discovery or intuition about the Mandy set.