African Fractals, Deviation & Chaos Math

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:51 am

Fuckin Amazing!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/198

ABZurd

ze2be · Post by **ze2be** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:18 am

wow, great! I love fractal mathematics

nolus · Post by **nolus** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:16 pm

Interesting talk. Especially like the bit where he talks about the origins of computational mathmatics; Islamic Mystics -> Spanish Alchemists -> Leibniz -> Bool -> Von Neuman.

TED is one of the best things on the internet.

This -> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92 is one of my favourite talks on there. Fantastic use of graphics to illustrate world trends. and there is a follow up to it here -> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/140. Well worth a watch

ze2be · Post by **ze2be** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:56 pm

Very interesting stuf.

julienb · Post by **julienb** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:55 pm

very interesting.
complexity studies are amazing !

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:35 pm

this is really really cool

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:50 pm

aburgener wrote:this is really really cool

*edit*

i really like this too:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/131

Abzurd · Post by **Abzurd** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:30 pm

Wow aburgener big ups for your Ted as well. Yea nolus Ted is one one of the best things on the net.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 7:45 pm

wow, those are some of the coolest lectures I've watched in a long time!! bookmarked!! the 'health before wealth' notion was refreshing to hear, and the notion that computers originated in Africa was a trip. very cool how they organized their huts in self generating circles and all that.

re: mendelbrots, I searched a bit and can't back this up, but... years and years ago a friend showed me how to write code for the mendelbrot, we did it in less than 20 lines of code. each pixel on your screen has an x,y coordinate, treat the y value as an imaginary number. take the coordinate, square it and all it to itself. do this over and over again and it will always go to 0 or infinity. assign that pixel a color depending on how fast it goes to infinity or 0, the result is the mendelbrot set.

Timur · Post by **Timur** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:26 pm

Mind boggling!

Great links, thanks alot!

friend_kami · Post by **friend_kami** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:48 pm

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/165

ohyeah.