Fractal: Discussion

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Fractals and Complexity

Fractals and Complexity
The Mandelbrot set , one of the most famous examples of mathematical visualization. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_visualization

Mathematical visualization

Mandelbrot set

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Initial image of a Mandelbrot set zoom sequence with a continuously coloured environment
The Elegant Universe: Part 3 PBS Airdate: November 4, 2003 NARRATOR: Now, on NOVA, take a thrill ride into a world stranger than science fiction, where you play the game by breaking some rules, where a new view of the universe pushes you beyond the limits of your wildest imagination. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe.html

NOVA | The Elegant Universe: Pt 1

June 2010

In Fractal Finance, Part I we saw that fractals can be useful in describing complex, seemingly chaotic patterns in nature. We also saw how Wall Street took advantage of the same advances in information technology that made the study of fractals possible starting in the 1980s, to come up with computer-driven black-box trading schemes. http://suddendebt.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html
http://mathlesstraveled.com/2008/09/01/mandelbrot-maps/

Mandelbrot Maps | The Math Less Traveled

Run, don’t walk, to play with the Mandelbrot Maps applet , which lets you play around with the Mandelbrot set while seeing the associated Julia sets updated in real time .
Interesting numbers --- zero --- one --- complex --- root 2 --- golden ratio --- e --- pi --- googol --- infinity http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/numbers/interest/i.htm

Interesting numbers - Imaginary and complex numbers

A Global Geometric Framework for Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/290/5500/2319.abstract Scientists working with large volumes of high-dimensional data, such as global climate patterns, stellar spectra, or human gene distributions, regularly confront the problem of dimensionality reduction: finding meaningful low-dimensional structures hidden in their high-dimensional observations.
http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue53/features/hallucinations/index

Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations

December 2009 Think drug-induced hallucinations, and the whirly, spirally, tunnel-vision-like patterns of psychedelic imagery immediately spring to mind.
Fractal: Law of law of genre