Boring things that fascinate me #143: exponential growth. Did you know that if it were possible to fold a sheet of paper over on itself a hundred times, it would end up being about as thick as the known universe? It’s true!
The above image started as a scan of an old shoelace, sections of which I symmetrically copied, rotated, copied, rotated and so on. The final image at the bottom uses 850,000 copies of the original scan.
Wake up! I’m finished.
This is pretty awesome. It looks like you’ve re-invented one of my favourites – the hypermathematical Mandelbrot Fractal. Amazing what you can do on a shoestring budget.
http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/interface/
is a neat site, but I think thry made an error in the formula in para 22.
Okay, I don’t know if this is the right place or not, if it isn’t then please forgive me. But I think you might enjoy another source for your creativity.
I would like to shamelessly, and openly advertise a new creative blog for people of imagination that I’m starting. It’s called Creagination. Come by, take a look, and tell me what you think.
Thanks.
Marvelous! This has to be my favorite this month and it all stems from a shoelace scan. I’m not sure how this relates to exponential growth but that was an interesting read….
Wow, I love geometrical patterns! No, I really do. I used to get a book out from the library when I was about 12/13 called, fittingly, “Geometrical Patterns” and just stare, fascinated, at all the colourful patterns. I would then try to copy them (very ineptly) with my compass. No one else ever got a look-in when it came to that book – I just kept renting it out. Then again, I suspect no one else wanted a look-in.
Anyhow, I’m with Josh – I like it very much.
This is so pretty.