Comments on: Fractilic Landscapes http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/05/fractilic-landscapes/ Poetry Editor and Struggling Poet Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:27:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Post in Which I Explain Once and For All What Makes American Fractal a Fractal » Timothy Green http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/05/fractilic-landscapes/#comment-428 The Post in Which I Explain Once and For All What Makes American Fractal a Fractal » Timothy Green Tue, 05 May 2009 12:39:59 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=731#comment-428 [...] « Fractilic Landscapes | [...] [...] « Fractilic Landscapes | [...]

]]> By: Sandra Leigh http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/05/fractilic-landscapes/#comment-427 Sandra Leigh Tue, 05 May 2009 00:46:45 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=731#comment-427 Tim, I do wish I could say that I've had a "Eureka!" moment, that the concept of fractals is now perfectly clear to me, but I haven't, and it's not. I'm pretty sure the fractal is not the blue rock itself. Is it the relationship between the blue rock and the surrounding landscape? If so, in what sense? Are we talking plane geometry? Solid? Something else entirely? If the relationship between the blue rock and the landscape, however we define it, is replicated on the surface of the blue rock (like the little girl on the Morton salt container), which I think I understood to be the case, then is the fractal <i>that relationship</i>? Is a fractal, then, not a thing at all? Obviously, I am thoroughly confused. The only positive thing I can say is that now, at least, I know that I don't know. Tim, I do wish I could say that I’ve had a “Eureka!” moment, that the concept of fractals is now perfectly clear to me, but I haven’t, and it’s not. I’m pretty sure the fractal is not the blue rock itself. Is it the relationship between the blue rock and the surrounding landscape? If so, in what sense? Are we talking plane geometry? Solid? Something else entirely?

If the relationship between the blue rock and the landscape, however we define it, is replicated on the surface of the blue rock (like the little girl on the Morton salt container), which I think I understood to be the case, then is the fractal that relationship? Is a fractal, then, not a thing at all?

Obviously, I am thoroughly confused. The only positive thing I can say is that now, at least, I know that I don’t know.

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