I’ve been investigating books on fractals. The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature looks pretty good. I am interested in studying and implementing them. Can you recommend any? Addendum: 01/03/09 “The Fish and Chips Book” was recommended.
Some beautiful fractals, available in wide variety of sizes, can be found here, for free!
A brief article, with a lot of good pictures, about fractals on an art forum can be found here.
Buddhabrot is an alternate rendering of the Mandelbrot set. Have a look here.
When you first start studying functional programming, one of the things that people will ask you is “So; have you learned lambda calculus (TLC)?”. The fact is that while you don’t need to learn TLC to learn about functional programming; you ought too study the TLC at some point. In this great LtU thread on [...]
Can we look to mathematics to find the “measure of beauty”?