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On Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:57:44 PM UTC-4, Terren Suydam wrote: > > Not to mention, simpler patterns reminiscent of the output of some > iterative cellular automata do show up in nature. > > See http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-423 for an example of > sea-shell patterns that look an awful lot like some of the patterns in > his book A New Kind of Science. > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Clark <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Craig Weinberg > > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > > > wrote: > > > >> > Statistically, shouldn't we see this simple 1K sequence frequently in > >> > nature? I mean precisely. Shouldn't there be hundreds of species of > beetle > >> > that have patterns on their backs which are derived exclusively from > the > >> > Mandelbot set. > > > > > > There's nothing special about the Mandelbrot Set, it's just the first > > example found where huge complexity can be generated from very little. > And > > if you want to see what can be done with a 400 meg file just look in a > > mirror, that's about the size of the human genome; you could burn the > entire > > thing onto a CD and still have room for 100 pop songs from iTunes. > > > > John K Clark > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "Everything List" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/EI6e2UrfI-AJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
