REQUEST: Fire/Flames

Can anyone mail me any examples you have of ASCII fire and flames?

-Jay Thaler
 tha...@egr.msu.edu
 
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If you enlarge that 7000% you get a really, really big dot.

In article <2ov5r7$ub...@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> tha...@egr.msu.edu (Jay Thaler) writes:
>From: tha...@egr.msu.edu (Jay Thaler)
>Subject: REQUEST: Fire/Flames
>Date: 18 Apr 1994 23:41:27 GMT

Ponderings of a long, lazy spring midafternoon...

Please e-mail flames to: jsp...@uvsc.edu

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>If you enlarge that 7000% you get a really, really big dot.

The truly scary thing about this dot is that it's fractal in nature.  If you 
look at it really, really, really closely, you can see that it itself is 
made up of even more tiny dots.

This, of course, is system-dependent, but on my screen, it appears to be 
constructed of tiny red, green, and blue dots in a pseudo- hexagonal pattern.

In a thought experiment (one that can be transferred quite easily to the 
computer), one can "zoom out" of this fractal, to generate a picture that 
resembles this:

     .   .
    . . . .
     .   .
    . . . .

And again:

       .       .
      . .     . .
     .   .   .   .
    . . . . . . . .
       .       .
      . .     . .
     .   .   .   .
    . . . . . . . .

And yet one more time:

           .               .
          . .             . .
         .   .           .   .
        . . . .         . . . .    
       .       .       .       .
      . .     . .     . .     . .
     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
           .               .
          . .             . .
         .   .           .   .
        . . . .         . . . .
       .       .       .       .
      . .     . .     . .     . .
     .   .   .   .   .   .   .   .
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Notice some shapes starting to come back into view.

From this, one can deduce that the smaller dot will forever resolve into 
more smaller dots upon higher levels of magnification ad infinitum, and that 
the smaller dots will resolve into larger dots ad nauseum.

From this, we can deduce that object outside of the computer are also 
fractal in nature.

From this mental percolation, we can deduce that in an infinite universe,
there are an infinite number of fractal objects, and from this, we can 
deduce that college drug experiments compounded with adultery are a leading 
cause of political success.  (I skipped a few steps in my logic, but I'm 
sure others can follow in what I say.)

Unfortunately, I was still trying to use this theorem to prove that washing 
your pants in jalepeno juice tends to deter your neighbor's dog from abusing 
your leg when my 486-33 gave me an "underflow error" message.

There are some secrets of the universe that man just should not know.

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                                      internet:jsp...@uvsc.edu

In article <2ov5r7$ub...@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, tha...@egr.msu.edu (Jay
Thaler) wrote:

> Can anyone mail me any examples you have of ASCII fire and flames?
> 
> -Jay Thaler
>  tha...@egr.msu.edu
>  

A request for flames.  Boy, could I pounce on that net.straight.line.  But
since I've implied it, I won't.  Such is the 20th-century way...  !^)

-- 
             Christopher Stookey - sto...@gold.tc.umn.edu
     "...no pearl grows without a grain of irritation at its heart.
    (The trick is to grow a pearl and not an _ulcer_.)" --Neil Peart
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