Fractals: The Colours of Infinity

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In memory of Arthur C. Clarke's recent death, I would like to post his excellent program on fractals. He considers them one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics:

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8570098277666323857

 

This program explores the far-reaching implications that fractals have both in mathematics and in our daily lives, and interviews a number of highly reputed mathematicians about the nature of fractals and the immense applications they could have in our daily lives.

 

It feels a bit dated now, but still... excellent!

[Daecon]

I was hoping for a program for fractals.

 

Where you can type an equation and it will show you what the resulting fractal would look like. (Along with pre-programmed fractals to look at like the Mandelbrot set, etc.)

[the tree]

I've tried to stream this a gazzilion times, I guess it's not just going to work for me. Bah.

[iNow]

It's worth it if you can check it out somehow... somewhere... Maybe at school or a friends place?

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I was hoping for a program for fractals.

 

Try XaoS

[Daecon]

I downloaded XaoS for windows and unzipped it but it's just a load of unrecognised file formats.

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Look in bin/ and click on xaos.exe

[Daecon]

Cool. It's like looking at the Universe.

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Cool. It's like looking at the Universe.

 

If you like that you should check out Electric Sheep

[the tree]

Woo finally got to watch it, thankyou for linking to it.