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Pattern and process by ~markdow:iconmarkdow:

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A fractal elaboration of a frieze.

If we see a pattern do we know the process? Ecologists and taxonomists worry about this. I designed the algorithm to make this, but I'm not sure I know the process -- it might be an unconscious process.

"Basically, there are only a few possible forms that underlie the things that are happening in the world. And the feeling is that if I can sort of strip something like the weather down to its rawest mathematical form, I can then look at that form and I can find another system that actually shares the same pattern. Because if there's only a few little patterns and yet there's so many diverse things in the world — lots of things are actually going to have the same pattern. So a cup of tea can be a perfectly good model for a hurricane. And then, to predict what the hurricane's going to do, all you have to do is prepare your cup of tea so it's in the same state as the hurricane. Then you watch it for a minute and read out where the hurricane's going to be. So you begin to use nature as a kind of computing system." Rudy Rucker, describing the premise of his book "Mathematicians in Love", in a 10 Zen Monkeys interview.

Based on Kinky frieze.

Frieze notes. [Broken link: Ripple notes and code.]

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~Robin14159265359 Feb 9, 2009, 7:10:07 PM
That's very interesting. I once had an idea to create something vaguely similar, to represent the fusion between head and heart that is at the centre of the artistic process (and exemplified by art generated by a computer program) but, as with almost all of my mini-projects, I never got round to it. My limited-purpose fractal generator seems to have been the main exception to that rule.

Maybe someday I will unshelve all these unfinished ideas and put some effort into being creative for once. Then I'll have something to submit to deviantART.

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Maths is NOT boring, philistines!
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*Sesquicentennial Feb 15, 2009, 7:00:07 AM
This is really beautiful

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What God hath willed hath been, what God hath not willed shall not be. — Bahá'í sacred writings
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