Archive for May 5th, 2009
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
The Post in Which I Explain Once and For All What Makes American Fractal a Fractal
Yesterday I gave a new (for me) example of what fractals are — objects for which scale is irrelevant, because the same patterns repeat over and over again regardless of scale. Viewed from above, a photograph of a barren desert could be a mile wide or a meter, and there’s no way to tell the [...]
