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02/27/2007: "Oh, It's a Fractal Again"
Fractal or Fake?: Science News Online, Feb. 24, 2007
Jackson Pollock couldn't possibly have been thinking of fractals when he started flinging and dripping paint from a stick onto canvas. After all, mathematicians didn't develop the idea of a fractal until a couple of decades later. But if one physicist is right, Pollock ended up painting fractals anyway. And that mathematical quality may explain why Pollock's seemingly chaotic streams of paint come together into an ordered, beautiful whole, and why the technique brought Pollock acclaim as a master of American abstract painting.
Yes, it's the return of fractals to my website! Although you may not care much either way for the argument that a painter's work is a naturally occuring fractal, there is a nice little primer on what fractals are.
Just for fun, here are the past entries I have posted concerning fractals:
May 7, 2006 - Can you guess what this is?
May 10, 2006 - A little explanation.
June 10, 2006 - Something neat I created.
Wow, that is not very many! I may have to post more . . .