http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-56937-6.html I’ve played with Chaoscope a little, but never produced anything quite like these! Comparatively, mine were very boring indeed.
New Apophysis Tutorial for Beginners
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the many features of Apophysis, including a command cheat sheet. I wrote this tutorial a couple years ago, but I think it’s better than the one I’ve offered over at DA before, so I figured what the heck. I’ll upload this one too. Some of the info might be a little dated. In order
Medieval Islamic Tile-Makers Were Master Mathematicians
Link no longer available. Historians have long assumed that sheer hard work with the equivalent of a ruler and compass allowed medieval craftsmen to create the ornate star-and-polygon tile patterns that cover mosques, shrines and other buildings that stretch from Turkey through Iran and on to India. Now a Harvard University researcher argues that more than 500 years ago, math
Visprint
Visprint From the site: “Visprint makes cool fractal fingerprint PNG images based on the contents of any file. The image will be different for almost every file with even slightly different contents. Visprint uses the IFS fractal generation process pioneered by Michael Barnsley. It is a way to create images that are self-similar to infinite depths. In other words, the
SAT math shower curtain
Dig it
Sierpinski’s Gasket appearing naturally on a shell.
Puzzle Hunt
The wonders of the Menger Sponge and the Golden Ratio in a beautiful animation.
Eye of Horus
http://greatscott.com/hiero/eye.html The Eye of Horus and fractions… ya learn something new every day.
Inspired by Infinity
Science News The concept of infinity intrigued Escher and he wanted to capture the notion in an image somehow. Then in 1957, he read an article containing a diagram of a hyperbolic plane written by H.S.M. Coxeter, a mathematician at the University of Toronto. This was the inspiration that caused Escher to create the Circle Limit prints which in turn
Rudy Rucker on GigaDial Public
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rudyrucker Interviews and talks by author Rudy Rucker, who has a Ph.D. in the theory of infinite sets and is also a well-known science-fiction writer who enjoys painting.
Another believer of Fractilism
http://kradeleet.com/?p=77 From the page: “Rudy (Rucker) is starting to think all this is more than just a nifty coincidence, that mathematics has just happened to stumble on a method of creating patterns that look just like so many natural patterns. In his latest post, he makes the suggestion that “God” could be a deterministic non-reversible class four paratime metaphysical cellular
Scientists studying fractal recognition
Researchers are hoping to discover why certain types of fractal images can actually sooth the viewer. The Register-Guard wrote this interesting article about the different types of studies being done across multiple professions in an attempt to understand how the brain processes fractal imagery.
Carlo Sequin
http://www.ams.org/mathimagery/displayimage.php?album=8&pos=1 24 Lizard tiles, inspired by one of the many planar tilings by M.C. Escher, are mapped around a rounded tetrahedral frame of genus 3. This tiling is a contorted version of the pattern of 24 heptagons displayed on the surface of the marble sculpture “Eight-fold Way” by Helaman Ferguson. That sculpture celebrates Felix Kelin’s famous “Quartic Curve” which achieves
A Mandelbrot the Size of the Known Universe
I was asked to speak to an Art Appreciation class at Oakland College last Wednesday about fractal art and I talked about how you could keep zooming in to a fractal for an infinity and the patterns would never be the same, even if it were the size of the universe. This animation shows that theory in practice, by diving
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-breakthroughs-in-mathematics.html I’ve seen this at least a hundred times, but every time I lol for real.