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Knowledge and personal choices don't work the way you want them to, Doug. People hear things and then it processes as logical or illogical -- and beyond that it is not intrinsically associated with action, let alone revolutionizing the world. (I love you, man.)

Action may occur, but that is associated with predetermined tendencies in an individual's mind. I see life as being like stuck in a mandelbrot set (except even more fucked with chaos and shit): You want to get over to one cluster, but you're quickly swept up in the pattern of c, c² + c, (c²+c)² + c, ((c² + c)² +c)² + c, (((c² + c)² + c)² + c. You want to be rational but it is not easily accomplished; perhaps even a complete impossibility. Your truth is only truly applicable to your location in the set and you will never be able to reach the other areas of the set to deliver the truth.

Similar to any fractal, visualized or unvisualized complex mathematical set, there is truth, but the truth that serves one series of nodes (people, regions, cultures, education levels), does not consistently serve or do justice for another node, even if it is the truth. Your truth may be met with hostility or confusion.

One example I can think of in real life is the inconsistency between the western civilization node and the eastern civilization node, wherein we have learned through logic and historical context, that the rights of one people should extend to all people, men and women; yet for some, religious belief is so ingrained within the human brain, it creates a node where they see their restricted freedom as a freedom itself -- I speak of the hijab. This is where truth fractals and the pattern of determinism is becomes more readily apparent. Women in hijabs find it difficult to excercise in a standard hijab, so someone, in an effort to promote healthy lives in Muslim communities, invented a sports hijab -- like the sports bra of the Middle East. Those within the node wherein Islam is true, see this as empowering; while those outside that node, see only restriction to women's rights: confusion. Regardless of how logical you may state it from outside the pattern, it will not serve as truth in the way it serves you in your own ever evolving, shifting node.

The way that I see it is, we live in a biological nightmare where freedom is only an illusion. You'll run around like a wind up toy until you're dead. Everything that is and will be is a series of things fucking with other things; exploding in rage, or taking it solemnly up the ass. But but but -- no, sorry, that's why you don't give a fuck. You found the secret of life -- the true enlightenment that harmony is disorder and that free will is a lie. Enjoy it because it is and ever will be.

The final magnification is 2.1x10^275 (or 2^915). I believe that this is the deepest zoom animation of the Mandelbrot set produced to date (January 2010).

Each frame was individually rendered at 640x480 resolution and strung together at 30 frames per second. No frame interpolation was used. All images were lovingly rendered by 12 CPU cores running 24/7 for 6 months.

http://fractaljourney.blogspot.com/

Music
"Research Lab" by Dark Flow

Unfortunately I didn't write a zoomable Mandelbrot set program until my junior year of college, at which point I had stopped smoking pot.

>> ^djsunkid:

True story- My favourite part of this ride wasn't the ride itself, it was actually in the corridor on the way to the ride. As well as these videos, they had a bunch of mad-science lab decorations scattered about. One of the decorations was a computer monitor that was showing an animated Mandelbrot zoom. This would have probably been in around 1991 or 1992.
I was already familiar with the concept of zooming in on the Mandelbrot set, but remember back in those days it would take minutes or even sometimes hours to render each frame. It had never occurred to me to make an animation of a zoom. It totally and utterly mesmerized the twelve year old me. It was the worst thing being in a line and not getting to just stand and watch it- the line moved and I couldn't block people, so I only really caught a glimpse of it. It was really just a few seconds ping-pong loop, but wow. What an effect.
When I first saw the program Xaos running on a (then) modern computer, probably an early pentium or something, I knew for sure that it was the future. Realtime animated fractal zooms, WTF!
I wonder if there are any photos or videos of the decor of the corridor from that ride?


Hhaa, Blue Man Group uses that too IIRC. I love the 3D ones now! I want a screen saver of it!

True story- My favourite part of this ride wasn't the ride itself, it was actually in the corridor on the way to the ride. As well as these videos, they had a bunch of mad-science lab decorations scattered about. One of the decorations was a computer monitor that was showing an animated Mandelbrot zoom. This would have probably been in around 1991 or 1992.

I was already familiar with the concept of zooming in on the Mandelbrot set, but remember back in those days it would take minutes or even sometimes hours to render each frame. It had never occurred to me to make an animation of a zoom. It totally and utterly mesmerized the twelve year old me. It was the worst thing being in a line and not getting to just stand and watch it- the line moved and I couldn't block people, so I only really caught a glimpse of it. It was really just a few seconds ping-pong loop, but wow. What an effect.

When I first saw the program Xaos running on a (then) modern computer, probably an early pentium or something, I knew for sure that it was the future. Realtime animated fractal zooms, WTF!

I wonder if there are any photos or videos of the decor of the corridor from that ride?

>> ^Fusionaut:

>> ^cybrbeast:
Btw, Buddhabrot is also quite an amazing way of rendering the Mandelbrot set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot


also called the boobybrot


Thats "WIN" music is not my cup of tea.

>> ^cybrbeast:

Wow this is amazing. Stop whining westy and Enzo, read the article:
"White's search isn't over, though. He admits the Mandelbulb is not quite the "real" 3D Mandelbrot. "There are still 'whipped cream' sections, where there isn't detail," he explains. "If the real thing does exist – and I'm not saying 100 per cent that it does – one would expect even more variety than we are currently seeing."
Part of the problem is that extending the Mandelbrot set to 3D requires many subjective choices that influence the outcome. For example, you could extend a flat plane to 3D by stretching it to form a box, but you could also turn it into a sphere."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn181
71-the-mandelbulb-first-true-3d-image-of-famous-fractal.html
Also this page explains the mathematics and procedure somewhat clearer:
http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/12/13/mandelbulb
What this is, is just an amazingly beautiful 3D interpretation of a famous fractal.
This is definitely going into my watch when tripping folder


you say quit whining but I explained pretty concisely why you cannot do a 3d mandalbrot properly.
allso you cannot exspect everyone to read an acoseated artical when the initail post is titeld wrong.

If it was titaled artists representation of a 3d mandelbrot and then exsplaind how it worked then it would have been most excielent.

however as it is its a pretty pore attempt at a 3d Mandelbrot.

>> ^cybrbeast:
Btw, Buddhabrot is also quite an amazing way of rendering the Mandelbrot set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot




also called the boobybrot

Btw, Buddhabrot is also quite an amazing way of rendering the Mandelbrot set.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhabrot

Wow this is amazing. Stop whining westy and Enzo, read the article:

"White's search isn't over, though. He admits the Mandelbulb is not quite the "real" 3D Mandelbrot. "There are still 'whipped cream' sections, where there isn't detail," he explains. "If the real thing does exist – and I'm not saying 100 per cent that it does – one would expect even more variety than we are currently seeing."

Part of the problem is that extending the Mandelbrot set to 3D requires many subjective choices that influence the outcome. For example, you could extend a flat plane to 3D by stretching it to form a box, but you could also turn it into a sphere."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18171-the-mandelbulb-first-true-3d-image-of-famous-fractal.html

Also this page explains the mathematics and procedure somewhat clearer:
http://www.subblue.com/blog/2009/12/13/mandelbulb

What this is, is just an amazingly beautiful 3D interpretation of a famous fractal.

This is definitely going into my watch when tripping folder

I thought of you when watching this http://videosift.com/video/Mandelbrot-Set-Jonathan-Coulton-Blackboard-Video#comment-998246

Bold Dag! Bold!>> ^siftbot:
There is no pornography allowed on the Sift.


...or is it just me?

OMG This record has been SMASHED! There is a new fractal program out there called Fractal eXtreme, and people are making unBELIEVABLY deep zooms! Check out: http://www.videosift.com/video/Mindblowing-EXTREME-zoom-into-the-Mandelbrot-Set

Makes sense that the fractal compression used would eventually manifest as such. It's funny that the end image looks much like the grainy mandelbrot set viewers of the 90s.