Tag Archives: mathematics
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…
Perelman spiking
Enthusiasm is enjoying the biggest traffic spike in its existence. The new visitors are coming to see my post about Grigori Perelman, from nearly four years ago. The rush seems to have been prompted by Perelman’s non-collection of the Clay … more…
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…
Pattern in Islamic Art
I’ve been waiting for something like this to turn up: Pattern in Islamic Art is a browsable collection of 4000+ examples of art (chiefly decorative art, obviously) from across the Islamic world. Now I realise that there’s no shortage of … more…
Man is an elongated doughnut
I think this showed up on FFFF a few days ago. Dan Phiffer offers this illustration, which supports the point I made in the post on Poincaré’s Conjecture in August 2006 (here, and revisited here). Better late than never, for … more…
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)
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)
Moebius Transformations
YouTube – Moebius Transformations Revealed Higher quality video and technical details from here
links for 2007-11-07: Helvetica, and two kinds of sphere
Strange Metal Orb found in Texas today’s mystery object (tags: weird-shit, Texas) The Official Typeface of the 20th Century Happy birthday Helvetica, 50 years old this week (via 3quarks) (tags: typography, Helvetica, design) Turning a Sphere Inside Out Seriously counter-intuitive … more…
Möbius strip unravelled
news @ nature.com – Möbius strip unravelled – Mathematicians solve 75-year-old mystery of infinite loop’s shape. It’s been so long since I had a maths story in here, I’d almost forgotten I did them. A couple of mathematicians at UCL … more…