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A golden section is a geometric form constructed in a particular ratio of 1:1.618… (it's an irrational number that goes on forever without repeating… I like the idea that the golden ratio is irrational). Technically, the golden section is defined as the relation between two sections (a short and a long) on a line which [...]
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4. I don’t understand how the butterfly effect looks like the structures seen in the book…a butterfly looking pattern.
The butterfly effect is just the name, slightly arbitrary, of the idea that complex systems exhibit the characteristic by which tiny tiny tiny (infintesimally tiny) changes in one part of the system have the potential (not always [...]
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3. And so, there’s all this talk about ‘deterministic chaotic systems’… What exactly, is the stunning significance of this? I think I get that every shape in nature is ultimately created by patterns of itself within itself, but I’m confused as a biologist or physiologist or biochemist because things like continents are made of trillions [...]
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2. Does the fractal model also work for dynamic, fluid or changing shapes?
Yes, in fact this is it’s most ‘natural home’ I think. The reason is that fractals are about processes, not things, and processes are just that: descriptions of changes, not of things, and changes have a way of, well, being DIFFERENT the next [...]
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