#fractal tree

[autoreivcontagion]

Having to gaze at how your python script automatically builds a fractal tree and each time a new one is a very soothing activity. In this particular test the tree is carried through 9 generations with a chance of randomness > 0.1.

Math does magic.

[geofferoy]

The binary nature of choice

I’ve been thinking about choice, the decisions we make throughout our lives. Each can be put down to a yes or no. Do I do this thing? Do I think that thought? Even though the outcomes bring other questions like why and how, the decision itself has two options. 1s and 0s that spread out to other 1s and 0s. So with the millions of choices made throughout our lives I figured there would be a visual representation of this phenomenon. Lo and behold a fractal tree shows this the best. Branches coming from each decision leading into other branches and so on. It’s visually stunning but it is also a way to step back and see how those choices, whether good or bad, do not affect the growth of the tree.

Perhaps though instead of thinking of life as a single tree, it would be better to envision each persons life as a forest, or grove. The trunk of each tree would represent large life decisions, do I go for this job, should I stay or should I go, et cetera. From there the consequences of those decisions spread out, and perhaps interact with other trees in your grove. The aim I guess would be to keep the grove intact, and those choices that have a negative impact on your life can be nourished by the other trees, and even the decisions that arise from a bad choice can yield positive outcomes.

[bdarfler]

Datastructures for external memory

Something I recently became interested in is map data structures for external memory — i.e. ways of storing indexed data that are optimized for storage on disk. In a typical analysis of algor…

Fantastic summary of these data structures

[apurbzz-blog]

Project: Fractal Ruins

The “Fractal Ruins“ project involves generating a landscape that comprises of entities populated using fractals only.

This is the first part of the project - fractal tree analysis. I recently learned how to code up a fractal tree, and now I’m tinkering with certain parameters to see how the trees turn out. I wrote an interactive program in p5.js in order to inspect the changes.

Here‘s the link to the javascript program:

http://apurbzz-1994.github.io/fractal_ruins/

[adopteefractaltheory]

For fun I thought I’d tell you why I chose this icon. I’ve always really enjoyed tree of life imagery, so when I was searching for a new icon I went looking for tree fractals. I like this one in particular because it’s a little more fleshed out than some of the similar examples. The lines are thicker and there’s more color. Also I like how it’s asymmetrical. That’s important to me. The idea of asymmetric growth, asymmetric beauty, diverging from the idealized norm are all present for me in this image. As well as the asymmetry that comes from the discontinuity of adoption, and the asymmetric families adoption creates. The connections we’ve lost, but that remain in an abridged form, even when we go searching for re-connections, and how that new growth is still not the same as what could have been; how that search for roots can affect other branches of growth. Leaves might wither, but all things have their season and they may well grow back. Sometimes we have to let go of hoping for new growth on a certain branch, or even learn to live with a dead branch. There are times we have to let a branch fall altogether, to make room for an unimaginable spring. I also wanted a fractal tree of life to celebrate our complex genealogies, relationships, and histories. Adoption is for life, as are growth and beauty, and I wanted an icon that I felt could hold all those ideas together and more in a single glance, but what with being a fractal, could also inspire close looking of the kind I intend to do here. 

Would love to hear what other adoptees out think of this asymmetrical fractal tree of life imagery, if anyone wants to riff?

[fish-on-a-bicycle]

Fractal tree.

[metabopolis]

Processing rendering of Fractal Tree 3D by David King with Blender by Mint Penpisuth Wallace