Colours of Infinity

[Stinkerbell]

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]

If you have it I 'officially' allow you to post the link. *stamps*

[Stinkerbell]

If you have it I 'officially' allow you to post the link. *stamps*

Wohoo!

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

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

[CFTraveler]

Awesome! I really enjoyed it. A true 'brain tickle'. I give them two thumbs up.

[ButterflyWoman]

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]

Here's another video I really enjoyed:

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

[ButterflyWoman]

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]

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.