now i know why i was horrible at math

Post by **vynsane** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:21 pm

because i didn't take any acid during class

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

kidhuman · Post by **kidhuman** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:45 am

My head hurts after reading that

Ran · Post by **Ran** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:14 am

Way back in the day when I had a IBM 386, I used to have a screen saver with those things on it.

Post by **vynsane** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:29 am

this is currently my desktop, because they're called 'julia sets' or 'juila islands' and that's my daughter's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mande ... slands.jpg

also, i'm intrigued how similar the center of each of those spirals looks to the crown chakra and if that's coincidence, influence of culture on the mathematician that 'designed' it or if there is some underlying movement towards spiritualism in the science/math world.

anarky · Post by **anarky** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:48 am

A friend of mine who was a math wizard (and is now a professor, in fact) once simplified chaos theory for me by explaining it as a theory that inherently disproves itself but looks pretty when you graph it.

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