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subblue’s animated mandelbulbs

The Formula on Vimeo Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof… Music by The Formula (there’s only a … more…

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Meet the Mandelbulbs

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal People have been puzzling over the possibility of a three-dimensional Mandelbrot since shortly after the discovery of the original 2-D figure. This recent work, while not absolutely definitively The Answer, strongly … more…

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competitive bifurcations

Finery, Chris Oldfield, 2007 from amongst the 2007 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest winners. UPDATE: and another one: Mountains, Lilliane Rosschaert, 2007 (via FMH)

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links for 2007-12-02: fractal documentary

Fractals – The Colors Of Infinity 1994 documentary by Arthur C. Clarke on fractal geometry and its implications. First part of six. (tags: fractals mathematics Arthur_C_Clarke Mandelbrot chaos-theory)

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Ferrofluid sculpture

Sachiko Kodama, Yasushi Miyajima, Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals, 2006-7 “Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold … more…

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Of Slime Mold and Software

TAP: Vol 12, Iss. 20. Of Slime Mold and Software by Harvey Blume. reviews Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software By Steven Johnson. Headline finding: that emergence – “the movement from low-level rules to high-level sophistication.” … more…

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Circlemakers

Fortean Times – Circlemakers – Circlemakers get blogged in Metafilter.

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All creatures great and small

All creatures great and small – don’t be put off by the twee title. This article looks at research into the fractal-based, biological Theory of Everything (Nature, via Follow Me Here)

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