Re: wait! stonehenge is a fractal?

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<Pin...@candela.dartmouth.edu>, sgt
pinback <rob...@project.darkstar> wrote:

> On Sun, 31 May 1998, Veronica Karlsson wrote under the subject
> 'Re: requested ascii need Stonehenge'
> : > miK wrote:
> > >
> > >   Nice pattern.Or is it a symbol? Or is this a silly question? :)
> > >
> >
> > It's a fractal.
> 
> stonehenge? where the banshees dwell and they do dwell well?
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> thus the smart-alecy  subject.
> 
> and in response to the pic what they were really talkin about pete casso
> wrote:
> > The composition is too regularly structured to be a fractal.
> > Use the basic element, but randomize the structure and it will
> > more resemble a fractal in the usual sense. There are ascii
> > fractals using simple triangles. They are great candidates for
> > animation, but I fear that the visual impact of animated ascii
> > fractals is tacky compared to the real thing.
>
> but mandelbrot(stein)* himself called the gasket type thingy a fractal.
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> he talks about random and non-random fractals, so somethign doesn't have
> to be random to be a fractal (last i heard there was no definitive
> definition of a fractal tho. but what ol' benoit m. says is one should be
> one. including (sneaking the ob ascii art in) koch curve interations:

[snip of excellent illustrations]
 
> *actually i always thought there was some kind of good gag in
> 'mandelbrotwurst: the fractal sausage' but so far i've only got a laugh
> with it once 
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