Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Mathematical Migration

I saw these fractal artworks posted behind my office building.












"This sequence of images from the Mandelbrot Set takes you on a journey ever deeper into a mathematically created landscape. Fractals can be zoomed into and explored infinitely, and in this sequence, each image is approximately 10 times deeper than the previous one in which it is contained. See if you can discern the relationships between the images. After zooming through the 10 images, the picture you are looking at is smaller than the diameter of an atom. Or, looked at in the other direction, the original image is roughly the size of our solar system! Amazingly, this mathematical migration could continue forever. Learn more about fractals – the confluence of art, science, math and technology – at www.FractalFoundation.org."

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