http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:45:44 +0000 http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality en http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:45:44 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/MissionControl">Mission Control</a> wrote:<br /><br /><div id="projector_comment_container"><div class="projector_comment_wrap"><div class="projector_comment">In our opinion this post could contribute to <a href="/projects/ET2-Architecture"><b>ET2 Architecture?</b></a><br/><b>To send it and join the project, simply click the button on the right.</b> <a href="javascript:projector('1652','10001','ignore','6a3BnFoe');" class="redlink">(ignore)</a></div></div><div class="projector_button_container"><div class="projector_button"><a href="javascript:projector('1652','10001','accept','6a3BnFoe');"><img border="0" src="_gfx/btn_send_ylw.gif"/></a></div></div></div><div id="projector_thanks_container"><div class="projector_comment_thanks"><div class="projector_comment">Your post has been successfully added to <a href="/projects/ET2-Architecture"><b>ET2 Architecture?</b></a><br/></div></div></div> <div id="projector_ignore_container"><div class="projector_comment_thanks"><div class="projector_comment">Ignored<br/></div></div></div> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:57:41 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/A0013237932294">A0013237932294</a> wrote:<br /><br />'tis the season for holiday themed fractals.<br /> Douglas Cootey's <i>Christmas Eve Wrappings</i> below. Thanks for the link Wildcat<br /> <br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/6ZQg6qYM/_cimg/1197662119.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:30:51 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Wildcat">Wildcat</a> wrote:<br /><br />check one of the best fractal sites around <a href="http://www.cootey.com/fractals/index.html" target="_blank">Douglas Cootey's Atomic fractal artwork</a> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:12:50 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Feroze">Feroze</a> wrote:<br /><br />thats tru about pattern recognition and survival. One of the earliest sciences was astronomy because people needed to track the patterns in the seasons in able to make preparations for food and shelter. Since there was no light pollution long time ago the sky loooked amazing, and every night people probably watched the stars and noticed it's patterns. People studied the sky throughly and even used it for navigation. They use to take down data, tracking the stars, and make models to how the universe works. The first model was that the earth was the center of the universe and the planets, the sun and the stars all revolved around the earth. Ok thats probably for another topic though, anyways fractals are the jam. http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:36:17 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Testpilot">Testpilot</a> wrote:<br /><br /><b>Recursion</b><br /> n. See <i>&quot;Recursion&quot;.</i><br /> <br /> I wonder if our ability to recognize patterns such as iterative systems is innate. Pattern recognition seems to be integral to human survival.<br /> <br /> The idea of self similarity is interesting to me. Perhaps this is the driving spirit behind the divine proportions described by Vitruvius in De Architectura. Is our sense of the timelessness of Roman architecture simply due to the recursion or self similarity between nature and that of the buildings? Is there comfort in this golden ratio or sacred geometry?<br /> <br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/zdP3mVy7/_cimg/1197601200.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div><br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/zdP3mVy7/_cimg/1197601216.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div><br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/zdP3mVy7/_cimg/1197601235.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:14:54 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Harflimon">Harflimon</a> wrote:<br /><br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/RCcNy1S7/_cimg/1197598346.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.brainsturbator.com/site/comments/our_fractal_universe_a_sneak_peek_at_the_new_cosmology/" target="_blank">Fractal Universe</a><br /> <br /> There's some wild ideas about fractals and how they relate to our universe and reality itself.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:09:07 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Feroze">Feroze</a> wrote:<br /><br />Freakin love fractals<br /> <br /> Heres a great site for beautiful free fractal wallpapers:<br /> <a href="http://www.beautifulfractals.com/" target="_blank"><br /> Fractal Wallpapers</a><br /> <br /> Here's one I like in particular:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://lojjic.net/gallery/1000words/20031208-flame-fractal.jpg" target="_blank">Flame Fractal</a> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:47:03 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/folkert">folkert</a> wrote:<br /><br />That Daylight set is great, thanks. Your point is interesting because where I was talking about self-similarity across scales, you're dealing with self-similarity within scales. http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:31:28 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/Cristian">Cristian</a> wrote:<br /><br />I believe in self similar issues, but to our eye and brain the existence of similar elements we see every day can just pass by and we don´t realize they are there. <br /> <br /> For example, this image (<i>down</i>) was taken in Chile, but it can also be in almost any other country of the world probably. Our brain becomes a recorder of situations and pictures. Our eyes are constantly moving and capturing everything that stimulates them, so they are the receptor of an image that probably or not can be repeated exactly the same way anywhere else. It´s visual perception, how we remember, recognize things and how our vision functions with them. Our brain reacts to them, as recognize images, because they are in our memory.<br /> <br /> <div style="clear:both;"><img src="/userdata/4CvxF4be/_cimg/1197502092.jpg" border="0" class="padRight padBot" align="left"></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristian_h23/sets/72157603309197361/" target="_blank">Check this images</a>, are made by shadows of different things, many of them look similar (not the same as exact patterns, but similar), I wonder how many of us have shadows like that around us in this moment. <br /> <br /> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:32:34 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/folkert">folkert</a> wrote:<br /><br />I'd like to see a sketch of that situation. Do you do requests? <br /> <br /> Check out this example of self-similarity by <a href="http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/selfsimilar/" target="_blank">Paul Bourke</a>, he says:<br /> <br /> &quot;Consider the following image, is it on the scale of a large piece of rugged terrain photographed from an aeroplane, or the side of a mountain, or a patch of dirt on the scale of a few meters, or a magnification of the surface of a rough rock? Whichever it is, it could also easily be imagined to be any one of the others. So one could start at the large scale view from the air and apply successive zooms down to a microscopic scale, the surface maintains self similarity across those scales.&quot;<br /> <br /> <img src="http://www.spacecollective.org/userdata/6a3BnFoe/1184704033/rocky.jpg" /><br /> .<br /> <a href="http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/selfsimilar/" target="_blank">here is the rest of the article</a> http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:26:24 +0000 folkert 1652 <a href="http://spacecollective.org/alborz">alborz</a> wrote:<br /><br />I was combing my hair the other day (yes, I <i>do</i> do it from time to time) and I looked to my right to see the cat at the house I'm houssiting grooming himself as well.<br /> <br /> Even though I tend to think about these patterns we find in nature merely evidence of our <i>desire</i> to find/create patterns, it's interesting to think of nature as self-similar not only physically but also behaviorally. http://spacecollective.org/folkert/1652/Fractal-Reality