Earning My Turns (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Here's another batch of photos from my ICML return flight. The sea ice on Hudson Bay was far into its summer disintegration. Some of the patterns of dirty ice look like fossils or plankton skeletons with a mysterious fractal geometry. What would it feel like to touch it?
Is My Blog Burning? (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Cauliflowers are very much in at the moment. Plus, like snow flakes, crystals, mountain ranges, lightning, river networks, pulmonary vessels and broccoli, they are a fine example of fractal geometry in nature. So when you're cooking this remember to keep in mind D = Log N(L) divided by the log of 1 over L. Enjoy. Original news source
QJ.NET (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Developer krupkat has released Mandelbrot, a new homebrew program for the Wii. As the name of the program implies, it's a Mandelbrot set generator . A Mandelbrot set is basically a set of points set in a complex plane. The points on the plane create fractal images. A fractal is a geometric shape whose smaller parts are copies of the whole. If those definitions don't grab you, all you have to know...
Seed Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Paola Antonelli is senior curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. Benoit Mandelbrot is the father of fractal geometry. While studying architecture at the Politecnico in Milan in the 1970s, Antonelli was inspired by Mandelbrot's geometric ideas and visualizations, and eventually wrote her thesis on "Fractal Architecture." The two met for the first time last year when Antonelli...
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
A new way of looking at cities that has emerged during the last 20 years that could revolutionize planning and ultimately benefit city dwellers. 'The Size, Scale and Shape of Cities' advocates an integrated approach to the theory of how cities evolve by linking urban economics and transportation behavior with developments in network science, allometric growth and fractal geometry. Professor Batty argues...
Neatorama (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Spiral Fantasy by Alfred Laing Fractals are so purty! Here are the winners of the 2007 Second International Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest, which was named after the Father of Fractal Geometry himself: Link - Thanks Jon Jason!
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
Chaired and judged by the father of fractal geometry himself, Benoit Mandelbrot, this annual art contest highlights the playful side of mathematics — with some stunningly beautiful results. Sure, anyone can make a pretty fractal with a few lucky clicks (I used to spend hours messing around with a desktop fractal generator called Fractint) [...]
java.blogs (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
Rob@Rojotek One of the principals listed in Extreme Programing Explained is the idea of Self-Similarity (taken from Mathematics and fractal geometry). The idea in XP is to copy the structure of one solution into a new context, even at different scales, and is often used to help think about testing, [...]
