Comments on: on natural philosophers https://globalspin.com/2004/11/on-natural-philosophers/ a glimpse into the tiny mind of Chris Radcliff Sat, 01 May 2010 03:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8 By: karen https://globalspin.com/2004/11/on-natural-philosophers/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:37:16 +0000 http://globalspin.com/wp/2004/11/12/450/#comment-589 Fractals are like that. I like that it’s possible that all the wonderful differences in the universe can come down to very small, relatively simple patterns or formulas. I was reading a book on tesselations at one point and there was a puzzle requiring me to find the repeat. I looked and looked and couldn’t find it. When it was pointed out I was amazed; it was huge! I like the idea that so many things that seem inexplicable may only be that way because we don’t have the right perspective.

In a very facetious vein, I also read a magazine somewhere in which was displayed the floor of a person who had designed his/ her tile pattern out of fractals. I thought that it would be interesting to do this with your bathroom floor. You’d never leave. You’d just spend the whole sitting time staring, finding patterns.

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