has the mandlebrot set ever been worthwhile?

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echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

unless you count combined milleniums worth of human mental time devoted to staring at symmetical but hosed up math beetles

# ? Jul 14, 2014 11:05

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# ? May 29, 2024 03:39

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

two echithreads in one day

# ? Jul 14, 2014 11:39

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

ur on a roll

# ? Jul 14, 2014 11:39

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

the julia set is better

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:02

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

mods please namechange to fractal hipster

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:02

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

go in for a third

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:02

Symbolic Butt: Mar 22, 2009; (_!_); Buglord

I done a mandelbrot once

this thread is now "post ur mandelbrots"

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:25

Kathleen: Feb 26, 2013; Grimey Drawer

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

the julia set is better

the julia set of what?

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:27

echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

your mother of course

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:46

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

the mandlebrot only has been worthwhile as something cool to look at, but that's only because we haven't discovered how it's useful

# ? Jul 14, 2014 12:54

theadder: Dec 30, 2011

well it enabled making this thread so thats p good

# ? Jul 14, 2014 13:00

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

focal ischemia posted:

the julia set of what?

the julia set of deez nuts!!!!!!!

# ? Jul 14, 2014 13:37

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

my amiga drew those fractal pictures one screen line at a time -- it was brutally slow :eng99:

# ? Jul 14, 2014 13:59

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

without then what would we put on our trapper keepers?

# ? Jul 14, 2014 14:18

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

mandlebrot? more like mandlebutt

i'm the mandlebrot's butt

mandlebrots illustrate the most perfectly shaped butt that could exist

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:01

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

fractals are neat, too bad they're useless

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:02

LP0 ON FIRE: Jan 25, 2006; _{beep boop}

rotor posted:

fractals are neat, too bad they're useless

pretty much. except for

Wikipedia posted:

Fractal Antennas[51]
Fractal transistor[52]
Fractal heat exchangers
Digital imaging
Urban growth[53][54]
Classification of histopathology slides
Fractal landscape or Coastline complexity
Enzyme/enzymology (Michaelis-Menten kinetics)
Generation of new music
Signal and image compression
Creation of digital photographic enlargements
Fractal in soil mechanics
Computer and video game design
Computer Graphics
Organic environments
Procedural generation
Fractography and fracture mechanics
Small angle scattering theory of fractally rough systems
T-shirts and other fashion
Generation of patterns for camouflage, such as MARPAT
Digital sundial
Technical analysis of price series
Fractals in networks
Medicine[21]
Neuroscience[16][17]
Diagnostic Imaging[20]
Pathology[55][56]
Geology[57]
Geography[58]
Archaeology[59][60]
Soil mechanics[19]
Seismology[22]
Search and rescue[61]
Technical analysis[62]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal#Applications_in_technology

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:04

Lysidas: Jul 26, 2002; John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.; Pillbug

pro read for non-mathers: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:07

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

pretty much. except for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal#Applications_in_technology

nice list of hypothetical garbage no one actually uses (other than for Tshirts and other fashion)

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:08

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

A Treatise on the Mathematics of Snorgtees

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:10

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

pretty much. except for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal#Applications_in_technology

http://www.antenna-theory.com/antennas/fractal.php

# ? Jul 14, 2014 15:28

Symbolic Butt: Mar 22, 2009; (_!_); Buglord

Lysidas posted:

pro read for non-mathers: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

man this page is crashing my browser so hard

# ? Jul 14, 2014 17:57

rotor: Jun 11, 2001; classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Symbolic Butt posted:

man this page is crashing my browser so hard

flash is bad, let's all just expose The video card to javascript, that'll be nice & stable fore sure

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:04

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

IE handles that page just fine (of course) but lol at the black text on top of busy background

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:16

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

"imaginary number" or "complex number" are just awful ways of saying "tuple"

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:20

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

maths proving, once again, that write-optimized languages are garbage

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:20

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Bloody posted:

maths proving, once again, that write-optimized languages are garbage

i prefer to use right optimized languages, for correctness

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:23

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

Lysidas posted:

pro read for non-mathers: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/

Lol at the huge ugly header and 3D rotateable 2D graph.

e: the header is a movie and you can play it and watch it do really boring stuff that kills your browser. That guy has always been a fan of really ugly headers.

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:23

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

The Wu-Tang secret can be found at the end of the fractal.

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:25

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

Mandlebars are the hot new js rendering language

# ? Jul 14, 2014 18:28

yeah actually they will: Aug 18, 2012

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Beno�t B. Mandelbrot?
A. Beno�t B. Mandelbrot

# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:19

graph: Nov 22, 2006; aaag peanuts

no they will not posted:

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Beno�t B. Mandelbrot?
A. Beno�t B. Mandelbrot

i fuckign love science :xd:

# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:23

Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

no they will not posted:

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Beno�t B. Mandelbrot?
A. Beno�t B. Mandelbrot

lol

# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:24

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

no they will not posted:

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Beno�t B. Mandelbrot?
A. Beno�t B. Mandelbrot

Q: What�s an anagram of �Banach-Tarski�?
A: Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski

:xd:

# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:39

Bloody: Mar 3, 2013

graph posted:

i fuckign love science

# ? Jul 14, 2014 20:41

Peanut and the Gang: Aug 24, 2009; by exmarx

no they will not posted:

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Beno�t B. Mandelbrot?
A. Beno�t B. Mandelbrot

# ? Jul 14, 2014 21:23

H.P. Hovercraft: Jan 12, 2004; one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse; Slippery Tilde