Fractals: The Colors of Infinity
The Mandelbrot set - someone has called it the thumb-print of God - is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics.
With Arthur C. Clarke as narrator and interviews with a number of notable mathematicians, including Benoît Mandelbrot, this program graphically illustrates how simple formulas can lead to complicated results: it explains the set, what it means, its internal consistency, and the revolutions in thought resulting from its discovery. Asked if the real universe goes on forever, Stephen Hawking defines its limit of smallness; the Mandelbrot set, on the other hand, may go on forever.
The invention of the silicon chip in the 1970's created a revolution in computers and communication and hence transformed our way of life. We are now seeing another revolution which is going to change our view of the universe and give us a better understanding of its' working.
This film will explore the fractal universe and on our voyage of discovery, we will be helped by: Professor Ian Stewart of the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, an author of over 100 published scientific works; Dr. Michael Barnsley, former professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology who received a 2.5 million dollar government grant in 1991 to develop a fractal image compression systems.
The crazy idea to me is that it makes it infinite. Infinite mind, law of attraction, and my general art sense say that this is exactly how you become one within yourself. its the parallel universe coming into picture.
The music is Pink Floyd. It's leftovers from the Division Bell which was originally supposed to be a double album. Much of that music became "The Endless River". Listen to "Calling" from that album:
Who does the music? Sounds like Pink Floyd. Anybody know,, and what album? Thanks!
Extraordinarily special. I looking more in to this.
I can't stop thinking about this now...
wow!
Gosh, anthropomorphically. Are we reasonable or unreasonable.
Get real people.
Sorry, I do not discount the relevance of feedback in systems. But resorting to heaps of 'woo woo' adds very little to the conversation.
Lets not get carried away.
Its true, how far does space really go? Does it have an end at some point? Unfortunately we do not have the kind of technology to prove what lies beyond space. Take an ant for example, WE are fractals in their eyes or even smaller. A molecule in itself is fractal, you look closer and it has more details to it than what we can see. A jelly fish, tentacles could be precieved as fractals, its rich design and texture, like the barbs with venom. I was smoking a cigarette and stared at the trees and saw fractals its pretty cool to see the world in a different aspect.
I feel like I already knew this and am so grateful for scientists who can lay claim with facts and representative shared data.
welp, forgot to take my acid for this one lol
I have noticed that if i go into an open area say a clearing in the woods and i start spinning in the center of the opening, with my eyes open and looking straight out to the surrounding area. what i see appers to be a fractal spinning .
We are just one big holographic fractal.
Its all a question of scale. One day someone will see it in 3 then finally 4 dimensions.lol
i don't understand what it is beyond a fancy continuous spiral
Fractals, the way I see it, gives fine resolutin between the fate we have and the destiny we make. They tells us how our choices and choices of time can co-exist.
woah.
wished i had some phsychedlics when watching oh well. The music was not no way close to American rock much more similiar to Pink Floyd( old floyd that is). You can understand why the phsychedelic community embrased the beauty of fractuals art form, the idea of infinity in the designs. There was a thing i remember hearing that if you want to understand the universe or the language of God it is to try to understand mathematics as well as you can. So kids do good in math in school.
Natural forms look like computer generated images of Mandelbrot sets -- the interviewees then claim that natural forms are produced by a process (not specified) which is supposedly analogous to a computer programme. Ludicrous. Absolutely ridiculous. Did they leave logic at home today? That's like saying that because a ball and the moon look similar they were produced by the same process. Some posters claim to like the computer generated images and American rock background music. I find both trite and boring. Yawn.
yes!
[QUOTE]Iv taken trips a few times to experiment,
I swear this Is all that you can see,
all you want to do Is lie down and close your eyes after a strong dose, and Its like a live spectacle, colours swirling and dancing around, exactly like this doc.
It Is a profound experience.[/QUOTE]
I know exactly what you mean. Since I'm an epileptic and have had brain damage (LOL, similar to Nikola Tesla, my hero), I see that stuff all the time when my eyes are closed, without consuming trips (especially when I'm sleep deprived). The colors and shapes in my case are very similar to the fractal patterns in the movie, but infinitely more complex in multiple dimensions and at multiple places at the same time and at multiple times at the same place (it's kind of difficult to explain). And I wasn't aware that they were fractal patterns until college (math student).
Makes me wonder if Mandelbrot was using psychedelics or had brain damage. :P
Anyhow, thanks Vlatko for this beautiful documentary. Never can have enough mathematics :D
infinite complexity from one simple formula, very cool! I believe this technology is what powers Adobe Photoshop's Content Aware Fill, amazing!!!
From the beginning I was thinking to myself 'if this isn't David Gilmour, then someone sure as hell is ripping him off' good to know he did the music for this film, definitely added to the feel!
Fascinating documentary. I find most things in life seem to be embedded in simplicity. I believe it's our preconceived perceptions that can often make things appear complex.
Now consider this about what we do know of life. The only thing constant is change. Nothing ever just...stops. The only reason why anyone would think that of black holes is because no one has been through one to the other side. We thought there was no such thing as atoms either because we could not 'see' atoms. Everything in life continues....I saw fractals when I was 4...this theory is nothing new to me. I used to draw them as a child. Love all these videos.
Never underestimate how short life is.
screw the math