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Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World

50 points by Evgeny 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago
This was posted 3 times in the last 30 days.
- Evgeny 17y ago
  I did the search, I swear ... http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=geeky+math+equation+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com&meta=&aq=f&oq= http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=ge...
  - ars 17y ago
    Dedicated Hacker News search engine: http://searchyc.com/ http://searchyc.com/ works much better than google for this site.
- forinti 17y ago
  It's a fractal post; it repeats itself endlessly.
forensic 17y ago
I'm a computer nerd, so I don't say this often: These pictures are breathtaking. They remind me of gothic cathedrals, but more stimulating, deeper, and even more beautiful. Knowing they are mathematically generated gives me a feeling not unlike ecstasy.
- RevRal 17y ago
  The response I'm accustomed to seeing, when people are introduced to these such things, is normally closer to horror. What was your first reaction to seeing the Mandelbrot? Seeing this "geek world" induces a similar, though less severe, dread for me.
  - aerique 17y ago
    It's been a very long time ago since I first saw a mandelbrot but it must've been something like "cool / whatever" and only after learning more about it I started to appreciate it. Seeing the Mandelbulb pages a couple of months ago through HN I was really in awe and also found it very inspiring since it pertains to some of my pet projects. Is it possible for you to explain why it induces you with dread? I really can't understand that.
    - RevRal 17y ago
      I never thought I'd feel compelled to write a poem on HN: There is this incredibly slow machine, analyzing everything relevant in these passing things... arms moving and seeing. Seeing and slightly clutching some very few things with beings. Every instant, a thing goes dimmer, until slowly few remain. These are the harvest of this incredibly slow machine. I see the Mandelbrot as a surface on a much larger surface, and that surface on an even larger surface (and so on). It is an infinity that I cannot begin to comprehend, and at the end of it all... the best phrase I can think of to describe "the whole" is: an incredible slow machine. The Madelbrot is a virtualization and a sterilization -- it's a glimpse of something much grander, and that grander thing, that I called the incredible slow machine, permeates into reality and appears to determine the outcome of everything. Its arms stretch and grasp every little detail of every universe and we can see the evidence of its existence in the ferns as well as the galaxies. A hugeness that seems indifferent to our presence. Is it possible that our universe is much like the Mandelbrot set? That an infinite number of slight variations and radical variations of universes exist? From the very bottom, the numbers are calculated and fed back into the equation. The result is that we're an extension of a fractal finger. On an arm of the machine. An arm on an arm on an arm on an arm.... ---- Addendum: I'm still not satisfied with my answer for you, but I'm sure you can at least sense the unease some might feel. I can actually go on all day about this, and I would have to if I wanted to make any sense. So I have to stop myself because such energy needs to go into my writing. These days I'm pretty immune to existential dread. There was a long stretch of my life where I could not stop poking at this stuff. And, frankly, I think I've emerged slightly insane. It's part of the reason I stopped studying math; it got too much for me, and I've shifted my focus onto writing. Heh, but if you're a fan of GEB you know that you cant completely escape. That the strangeness still exists in writing.
- wlievens 17y ago
  I's say it's the kind of unconventional beauty you also see in Gaudi's architecture.
StrawberryFrog 17y ago
Geeky may be a redundant word there - How many world-creating math equations are there that aren't geeky?
- wendroid 17y ago
  Not only that but it is demeaning.
bitwize 17y ago
It makes me hungry for fractal broccoli... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli

50 points by Evgeny 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago

This was posted 3 times in the last 30 days.

Evgeny 17y ago
I did the search, I swear ... http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=geeky+math+equation+site%3Anews.ycombinator.com&meta=&aq=f&oq= http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=ge...
- ars 17y ago
  Dedicated Hacker News search engine: http://searchyc.com/ http://searchyc.com/ works much better than google for this site.
forinti 17y ago
It's a fractal post; it repeats itself endlessly.

forensic 17y ago

I'm a computer nerd, so I don't say this often: These pictures are breathtaking. They remind me of gothic cathedrals, but more stimulating, deeper, and even more beautiful. Knowing they are mathematically generated gives me a feeling not unlike ecstasy.

RevRal 17y ago
The response I'm accustomed to seeing, when people are introduced to these such things, is normally closer to horror. What was your first reaction to seeing the Mandelbrot? Seeing this "geek world" induces a similar, though less severe, dread for me.
- aerique 17y ago
  It's been a very long time ago since I first saw a mandelbrot but it must've been something like "cool / whatever" and only after learning more about it I started to appreciate it. Seeing the Mandelbulb pages a couple of months ago through HN I was really in awe and also found it very inspiring since it pertains to some of my pet projects. Is it possible for you to explain why it induces you with dread? I really can't understand that.
  - RevRal 17y ago
    I never thought I'd feel compelled to write a poem on HN: There is this incredibly slow machine, analyzing everything relevant in these passing things... arms moving and seeing. Seeing and slightly clutching some very few things with beings. Every instant, a thing goes dimmer, until slowly few remain. These are the harvest of this incredibly slow machine. I see the Mandelbrot as a surface on a much larger surface, and that surface on an even larger surface (and so on). It is an infinity that I cannot begin to comprehend, and at the end of it all... the best phrase I can think of to describe "the whole" is: an incredible slow machine. The Madelbrot is a virtualization and a sterilization -- it's a glimpse of something much grander, and that grander thing, that I called the incredible slow machine, permeates into reality and appears to determine the outcome of everything. Its arms stretch and grasp every little detail of every universe and we can see the evidence of its existence in the ferns as well as the galaxies. A hugeness that seems indifferent to our presence. Is it possible that our universe is much like the Mandelbrot set? That an infinite number of slight variations and radical variations of universes exist? From the very bottom, the numbers are calculated and fed back into the equation. The result is that we're an extension of a fractal finger. On an arm of the machine. An arm on an arm on an arm on an arm.... ---- Addendum: I'm still not satisfied with my answer for you, but I'm sure you can at least sense the unease some might feel. I can actually go on all day about this, and I would have to if I wanted to make any sense. So I have to stop myself because such energy needs to go into my writing. These days I'm pretty immune to existential dread. There was a long stretch of my life where I could not stop poking at this stuff. And, frankly, I think I've emerged slightly insane. It's part of the reason I stopped studying math; it got too much for me, and I've shifted my focus onto writing. Heh, but if you're a fan of GEB you know that you cant completely escape. That the strangeness still exists in writing.
wlievens 17y ago
I's say it's the kind of unconventional beauty you also see in Gaudi's architecture.

StrawberryFrog 17y ago

Geeky may be a redundant word there - How many world-creating math equations are there that aren't geeky?

wendroid 17y ago
Not only that but it is demeaning.

bitwize 17y ago

It makes me hungry for fractal broccoli... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli