Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension
Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature. You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you.
Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart.
In this film, we takes viewers on a fascinating quest with a group of maverick mathematicians determined to decipher the rules that govern fractal geometry.
For centuries, fractal-like irregular shapes were considered beyond the boundaries of mathematical understanding. Now, mathematicians have finally begun mapping this uncharted territory.
Their remarkable findings are deepening our understanding of nature and stimulating a new wave of scientific, medical, and artistic innovation stretching from the ecology of the rain forest to fashion design.
The documentary highlights a host of filmmakers, fashion designers, physicians, and researchers who are using fractal geometry to innovate and inspire. Also check out Fractals: The Colors of Infinity.
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THANK YOU for allowing this to be viewed by the public, for free. I'm a math professor. In my Liberal Arts Math class we study fractals. This video is a required assignment. Feedback from students is great. I appreciate all your work to make this documentary film available!
Awesome, just awesome!
I'm curious as to whether there are any fractal relationships with respect to social interaction. This is interesting -kinda boring- but interesting.
Every couple of months I feel the need to watch this doc and comment on how it changed my life and my perception of the world around me.
Great doc. Learned some things I did not know about the history of fractals. Last part was a bit funny. I'm sure the impoverished people of South America will be heartened to know that Western scientists have determined exactly how much land they need to set aside to clean up our pollutants.
Humans are the 'fractal' thoughts of the Universe. If you can see the latest photos taken from space by Hubble & Chandra of the edges of our universe, you might notice that the images resemble the neuron 'network' of the human brain. Millions upon billions of galaxies forming intricate 'fractal' networks that look so much like our neuron cells, axons, synapses, etc. An uncanny mirror image I would say of our brain. Maybe we are only thoughts in the mind of our Creator...
Fractals are the mystery of creation. There is and endless wonder in their infinite patterns.
Good doc. I wonder if a fractal pattern could be found in the flow of thoughts. It seems like it has only been applied to physiological (biological)structure.
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only makes sense i watch this/found this a few days after my first few DMT experiences..
This is one of the documentaries that changed my life. It changed my way of looking at the world and started a now - 3 year fascination with fractals.
Physicians? Er, physicists.
The old Mandlebrot set again, seems as glorious as ever , viewing a zoom in of a 3d fractal set
for me anyway concretes a theory about scale that I've had for many years
apply it to the universe and it makes more sense.
We exsist on a scale and view the universe at that fixed size.
Exsisting on a larger or smaller scale size, the view maybe different with similar physics.
For one this dark matter and dark energy scientists go on about maybe the void that
encompasses and seperates matter'
just as the negative space separates the fantastic infinite spiralling fractal.
Like a ratio if you will, change that ratio by too much and you get event horizons
like supanova and black holes...
I don't know but it's food for thought.
God=nature
Until the variations are not audible to the human ear.
This demonstrates how math truly is the language of God. Great documentary! If you really want to understand nature and the natural world, this is a must see.
Wonderful documentary. All of life is geometric -- all of life is fractal. Of course! Now I see it everywhere. Awesome. How simple and how smart.
Interesting and informative docco, more interesting as a list of applied fractal uses than history.
I'd be interested in the applications of increasingly fine resolution/detail fractal applications - as the film showed, the original applications (and reporting of) appeared to relate to fairly coarse fractals.
People i think we find a tool to measure the whole universe.
What if, and only what if these fractals is the door to the secret code we so long has been searching for. The code of everything and the door to the architect itself. Would that be something extraordinary to accomplish?
I can imagine that if these are is in nature itself bounded natural phenomena that occurs in every structure, than everything would be possible to achieve in a fragment of roughness.
For instance a mindreaders. That sounds now pure fictions, but thinks for it a minute, a mind is something that is apart of these complex structure that can be expressed as an fractals. Fractals can be reversed tuned to an applications of machine, ...if it plays the same rules that nature itself. Mind also communicate with waves, waves can be expressed by fractals.
Now use these knowledge wisely
cheers ;)
@Waldo:
I suppose music is like fractals in a way, so many different variations that can stem from one note, or one beat, that can lead to a full blown orchestra.
I also play steel guitar, have a double neck 16 string solid body electric gold top les paul gibson, circa. the 1950's.
Actually can read piano music on that.
@ Reasons Voice
Yeah, I have the string Tool thingy. But, its not a full orchestra, just a few violins and a cello. Maybe we are talking about two different things.
@ Achem
Thanks for the lay out, I was almost right. I can actually play drums fairly well if you sit behind them and say- "Just play". But, if you say now tell me what timing that was or what drum fell on what part of the count, I have no idea. Same with guitar, I can hold my own with anyone- well almost anyone. I am not looking to cut heads with Steve Via yet, not much for shredding any way. Now if you want to hear some good jazz, say Django Reinhardt or Joe Pass- I'm your guy. I love playing Stevie Ray Vaghn and Hendrix stuff as well, but blues gets old after a while. Its great to listen to, but to easy to play. I can even play alot of classical stuff by ear. You would think since I can play it I could read it with no issues, but it just doesn't come natural to me. Thats really starting to slow me down now that I have my studio set up and need to lay out click tracks and use different softwares, I will get it though.
O.k. I am way off topic so, sorry guys. I will shut up now.
Excellent documentary! Another example of intelligent design.
@Waldo; Nothing strange about loving Tool and Jazz. They are different in style yes but both fundamentally about musical perfection. In that way they are similar to classical music. If you have never heard it I strongly recommend the symphonic rendition tool album. It only furthers ones appreciation of Tool to hear their music played with the complexity of a full symphony orchestra.
@Waldo:
Since I play the drums, the basic beat is as follows: 4/4 timing.
High hat on 1, 2, 3, and 4
Bass drum on 1 and 3.... Snare on 2 and 4...
Cymbals 8, or 16th notes. And then any types of configurations.
This beat can apply for rock, blues, country, funk and pop. Jazz is usually played with brushes etc:
@ Anna
I'll take your word for it, I play guitar by ear. Tool is my favorite band to listen to because of their irregular timing and crazy bass riffs. I have just set up a studio in my bed room and stopped playing with the bar bands I was running with, so I could work on my own stuff. Thanks for the heads up, playing by ear sometimes puts you at a disadvantage, and then at other times its perfect.
I am trying to learn to read music and understand the timing notations and so forth. I play mostly jazz, I know thats odd for a Tool fan but I love playing the stuff. Thanks again for the heads up, down beat starts 4/4 and upbeat ends the measure- got it! Now where is the kick drum on standard 4/4 timing? I would imagine on two and four, correct? And the up beat is on the "and" correct? Snare on one and three (down beats). Let me know if this is right.