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300 Year Old Food Forest in Vietnam. The Kitchen Garden. Overview. A visualization of the Turbulent Landscapes exhibit providing a closer look at the real-world exhibits.

Overview

This area includes portions of the Turbulent Landscapes audio tour co-produced by the Exploratorium and Antenna Theater. A chronological view of parallel developments in mathematics, technological innovation, and scientific research, all of which have contributed to the contemporary study of complexity. A cross-referenced guide to the concepts, terminology, and key figures of modern dynamics---the main tools used to investigate complexity in nature.

Support for the development and tour of the Turbulent Landscapes exhibition has been provided by the National Science Foundation. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth.

Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Once the tutorial has completely downloaded, a set of the arrows will appear that allow the user to increase or decrease the view magnitude in Manual mode.

Click on the Auto button to return to the Automatic mode. Notice how each picture is actually an image of something that is 10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it. Earth = 12.76 x 10+6 = 12,760,000 meters wide (12.76 million meters) Contributing Authors David A. Questions or comments?

Pattern Language.com. The Language of Nature. Nature presents itself in patterns and patterns are the natural way for human beings to interpret the world.

The Language of Nature

Facts and figures are difficult to grasp and more so to remember. We may not remember that Christopher Columbus was born in 1451, but we remember that in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. It is not the number we remember, it is the singsong rhyme. How many feet are in a mile? I would never remember that there are 5280 feet, but I can remember “Five to eight! “Art” was traditionally used to encode information. Long before western science ever figured it out, the Anasazi developed a spiral calendar that described the wobble in the Earth’s axis of 18.6 years, which is important for understanding flood-drought cycles. Another example of art as information is the “song map” of the Pitjantjatjara women. We can group together many physical patterns under one unified pattern referred to in permaculture as the “general model.” Tesselation: In a system, elements have their own order. Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity (By Arthur Clarke) "Connecting the Fractal City", by Nikos A. Salingaros.

Nikos A.

"Connecting the Fractal City", by Nikos A. Salingaros.

SalingarosDepartment of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, USAKeynote speech, 5th Biennial of towns and town planners in Europe (Barcelona, April 2003). Published in PLANUM -- The European Journal of Planning On-line (March 2004); reprinted in DOXA, Issue 10, Norgunk Publishing House, Istanbul (June 2011), pages 78-101. Chapter 6 of PRINCIPLES OF URBAN STRUCTURE, Techne Press, Amsterdam, Holland, 2005; US edition Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon; Asia edition Vajra Books, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2015. Living cities have intrinsically fractal properties, in common with all living systems. The pressure to accommodate both the automobile and increased population growth led twentieth-century urbanists to impose anti-fractal geometrical typologies. Introduction. Figure 12. Mandelbrot Set Zoom. Mandelbrot set. Initial image of a Mandelbrot set zoom sequence with a continuously colored environment Mandelbrot animation based on a static number of iterations per pixel remains bounded.[1] That is, a complex number c is part of the Mandelbrot set if, when starting with z0 = 0 and applying the iteration repeatedly, the absolute value of zn remains bounded however large n gets.

Mandelbrot set

For example, letting c = 1 gives the sequence 0, 1, 2, 5, 26,…, which tends to infinity. As this sequence is unbounded, 1 is not an element of the Mandelbrot set. On the other hand, c = −1 gives the sequence 0, −1, 0, −1, 0,..., which is bounded, and so −1 belongs to the Mandelbrot set. Images of the Mandelbrot set display an elaborate boundary that reveals progressively ever-finer recursive detail at increasing magnifications. History[edit] Patterns Edge Systems.