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LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
what if you found a secret Mickey Mouse in a fractal zoomer? would you pee your pants?

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
are computers at the stage where can have animated desktops yet

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
u know what i did find in the mandlebrot set, buried really deep? a hosed up math beetle. he never goes away

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

echinopsis posted:

are computers at the stage where can have animated desktops yet

umm yes have been since windows 3.1

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
when u install windows after asking your desired username and name for computer it shoul;d ask you where the gif is located that you want for you animated desktop

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
i had the monty python game with all the desktop mini games

Kathleen
Feb 26, 2013

Grimey Drawer

Sagebrush posted:

oh good it wasn't just me. it locked up my whole computer and then finally released it when webgl crashed.

a pure mathematician knowing poo poo-all about implementing his poo poo in the real world? well i never

works 4 me. chrome on linux.

weed cat
Dec 23, 2010

weed cat is back, and he loves to suck dick



:sueme:
I got to see Mr. Mandelbrot speak and he was a nice chill bro

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

pram posted:

ive got a crashing browser for you



i'm the 112% of all people using a browser in q2 2012

Peanut and the Gang
Aug 24, 2009

by exmarx
In highschool I set my desktop to a bunch of sliding Lolcats using my javascript skills and active desktop. It used up 50% cpu all the time, hehe.

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

flakeloaf posted:

i'm the 112% of all people using a browser in q2 2012

im the zero not at the bottom

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
quality and presentation-wise this doc is pretty good but the content and explaining what fractals are and what not, not always so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmxJ1KDR_s0


anyway gives ok insight into why fractals are good for science. i think there's a lot to be discovered still

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

what ever happened to mr superawesome he was probably really into fractals

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
its going way back but tripwire used to make these fuckin great threads about pictures he created with maths and python


,miss that lil fucka

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
i also made an imgur album of 18 fractals i captured in Fractal Plus for iPhone

http://imgur.com/a/Ci4qa

might be good for desktop wallpapers









echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
fractals are cool and those pics are neat but all fractals have this, idk, freaky, vibe which you can't get rid of. i mean its inherent to them n poo poo but it puts u in a weird place psychologically



nature fractals are also hosed up

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
nature is one big hellish feedback loop

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.
fractals are cool, and people with fractal avs are cool

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

What? that's all it takes to make these? i saw these being sold at the boston museum of science one night for quite a lot iirc

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
maybe it's special glass

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Fractals are cool.

Also went to the BMOS recently, not as cool as when I was a kid =\

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

Captain Foo posted:

Fractals are cool.

Also went to the BMOS recently, not as cool as when I was a kid =\

yeah exactly. also didn't change much over the years

i really don't know why they tore down the computer museum. that museum would be doing really well these days :(

i'll never stop mentioning how i'm sad about that btw

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

yeah exactly. also didn't change much over the years

i really don't know why they tore down the computer museum. that museum would be doing really well these days :(

i'll never stop mentioning how i'm sad about that btw

bmos was dead when virtual volleyball left imo

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
that kinetic ball sculpture/rally thing was the best part
hope it's still there

the musical stairs are cool too

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

bmos isnt a science museum any more, its a science museum museum

you go there to see what a science museum was like 40 years ago

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone
why cant we use fractals to compress infinite information into very small spaces yet

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad



ur ded, m8

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

Bloody posted:

bmos isnt a science museum any more, its a science museum museum

you go there to see what a science museum was like 40 years ago

lol

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

luckily it's "blurred" so it has no effect

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!
Slippery Tilde

LP0 ON FIRE posted:

luckily it's "blurred" so it has no effect

lol i forgot about that part

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'


nice cock

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!
i didn't know how fractals worked, then i watched this video, now i know how fractals work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGMRB4O922I

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop
i kinda just want to make tree branching fractals at work today

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

Bloody posted:

bmos isnt a science museum any more, its a science museum museum

you go there to see what a science museum was like 40 years ago

that's all of them i think

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

no they will not posted:

Q. What does the "B" stand for in Benoît B. Mandelbrot?
A. Benoît B. Mandelbrot

what does the second B stand for

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

qntm posted:

what does the second B stand for

byobb

LP0 ON FIRE
Jan 25, 2006

beep boop

qntm posted:

what does the second B stand for

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

i'm Z0

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prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

i didn't know how fractals worked, then i watched this video, now i know how fractals work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGMRB4O922I

is that the jonathan coulton song?

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