African Fractals, Deviation & Chaos Math
African Fractals, Deviation & Chaos Math
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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
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
"That very perceptive of you Mr Stapleton, and rather unexpected... in a G Major"
*edit*aburgener wrote:this is really really cool
i really like this too:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/131
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.
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.
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Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?
-Moz
Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?
-Moz
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