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posted July 08, 2011 05:18 PM            

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http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=15943

Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.

A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity.

Fractals: they’re famously found in nature and artists have created some incredible renderings as well. Fractals are purely a wonder – too irregular for Euclidean geometry; iterative and recursive and seemingly infinite. They turn up in food and germs, plants and animals, mountains and water and sky.

Video from: youtube.com

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posted July 08, 2011 05:24 PM            

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Arthur Clarke - Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8m85p7GsU

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posted July 08, 2011 08:22 PM            

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posted July 10, 2011 04:07 PM            

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Thank you LTT

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posted July 16, 2011 07:37 PM            

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set

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posted July 17, 2011 10:33 AM            

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Thanks.

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