The title of this creation is GEODE. It was taken
from the web page published by the Physics Department
of the University of Wisconsin.
My very first contact with fractals was in the
Schiapol Airport in The Netherlands. Inside the
terminal, there were three displays of a term I had
never heard of before: fractals. One was a design
made of tiles inlaid in the floor of the airport.
Seemed to have no beginning and no end and the closer
you looked, the more complex the design seemed.
Another display was drawn on the ceiling of the
terminal: the border between East and West Germany, a
very intricate and complex tracing. The plaque that
described it stated that as the scale grew larger, so
did the length of the line dividing the two
Germanies. The last display was a large fish tank, an
aquarium. The plaque stated that the paths of the
fish through the water was a form of a fractal. I
didn't understand the term "fractal" yet, but I was
interested. That interest is the reason for these
pages.
Original, Physics Dept, Univ of Wisconsin
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals/collect/
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This is a reduced image to speed loading (40% reduction). Click on the image to see the original, full-scale image, but it will be slow loading.
The dictionary definition of a fractal is: "Geom. an extremely irregular line or surface formed of an infinite number of similarly irregular sections: fractals have fractional dimension between one and two, or between two and three, dimensions" Clear? Not to me, it isn't. Here are reduced images, with the method used to reduce the image indicated. The first was reduced by "zooming" out.
Titled "Chain of Events" (195.8 KB)
And one more, first the 30% reduced
original:
Titled "Blue" (in 24 colors) (249.4 KB)
And the
same image reduced to two colors, with an 80%
reduction in byte size -- notice how much faster it
loads. But also notice the quality of the image.
Two Color Blue (39.9 KB)
This last image is the original Blue cropped
and rotated but not reduced:
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Fractals with a dimension between one and two are objects (concepts?) between a line and a surface and fractals with a dimension between two and three are objects between a plane surface and a three-dimensional object. The above conceptual drawings attempt to show that. Slightly more clear than when you first came to this site? Hope so.
Would you like to see some more fractals? The remainder have also been reduced in size for faster loading. Come right along to Fractals (continued)
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