Re: [Fractint] homemade watch
hi everybody,
I also found a "fractext.exe" on a German site. The automatically-translated page said:
I don't know this site but since I am German, I can provide Information as follows . . .
Fraktale: presumably Deutches for "fractals".
quite so !
apple males: not sure about the males, but the word for apple (apfel) also means "ball". Maybe it works out to something like "spherical projections" ;-)
'apple males' is the incorrect translation for 'Apfel-Maennchen'. 'apple-man' is a German figurative for mandelbrot-set.
almond bread: literally "mandel brot". Now you know what his name *really* is!
'course we do . . .
dissolutions: probably "resolutions".
seems to make sense greetings from Germany, Bodo ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13
At 01:59 10/05/2002, Bodo Schäfer wrote:
'apple males' is the incorrect translation for 'Apfel-Maennchen'. 'apple-man' is a German figurative for mandelbrot-set.
Interesting ... it doesn't really look _that_ much like a person, but it's quite frequently described as one - apple-man, it seems; or snowman (with an aerial sticking out of his head) - even though the figure has to be turned on its side from its convenetional orientation for the description to make sense! I guess it just goes to show something about human neurophysiology - symmetry suggests biology. Speaking of names, consider those bifurcation diagrams drawn by Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was investigating the periodicities of iterated functions. Morgan L. Owens "And really HUGE buttocks!"
At 10:48 10/05/02 +1200, you wrote:
At 01:59 10/05/2002, Bodo Schäfer wrote:
'apple males' is the incorrect translation for 'Apfel-Maennchen'. 'apple-man' is a German figurative for mandelbrot-set.
Interesting ... it doesn't really look _that_ much like a person, but it's quite frequently described as one - apple-man, it seems; or snowman (with an aerial sticking out of his head) - even though the figure has to be turned on its side from its convenetional orientation for the description to make sense!
I guess it just goes to show something about human neurophysiology - symmetry suggests biology.
Speaking of names, consider those bifurcation diagrams drawn by Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was investigating the periodicities of iterated functions.
Morgan L. Owens "And really HUGE buttocks!"
ohhh, really !-)))) *********** male_or_female { ; Version 2002 Patchlevel 3 ; Version 2002 Patchlevel 3 reset=2002 type=mandel passes=d center-mag=-0.52645/-2.195e-006/0.9862003/1/-90/3.88578058618804789e-016 params=0/0 maxiter=100 inside=bof60 proximity=0.07 outside=fmod colors=Bbz00e0e00eee00e0eeL0eeeLLLLLzLzLLzzzLLzLzzzLzzz000555<3>HHHKKKOO\ O<3>ccchhhmmmssszzz00z<3>z0z<3>z00<3>zz0<3>0z0<3>0zz<2>0GzVVz<3>zVz<3>zV\ V<3>zzV<3>VzV<3>Vzz<2>Vbzhhz<3>zhz<3>zhh<3>zzh<3>hzh<3>hzz<2>hlz00S<3>S0\ S<3>S00<3>SS0<3>0S0<3>0SS<2>07SEES<3>SES<3>SEE<3>SSE<3>ESE<3>ESS<2>EHSKK\ S<2>QKSSKSSKQSKOSKMSKK<2>SQKSSKQSKOSKMSKKSK<2>KSQKSSKQSKOSKMS00G<3>G0G<3\
G00<3>GG0<3>0G0<3>0GG<2>04G88G<2>E8GG8GG8EG8CG8AG88<2>GE8GG8EG8CG8AG88G\ 8<2>8GE8GG8EG8CG8AGBBG<2>FBGGBGGBFGBDGBCGBB<2>GFBGGBFGBDGBCGBBGB<2>BGFBG\ GBFGBDGBCG000<6>000 }
;-) Guy
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At 22:48 10/05/2002, Guy Marson wrote:
Interesting ... it doesn't really look _that_ much like a person, but it's quite frequently described as one
Morgan L. Owens "And really HUGE buttocks!"
ohhh, really !-))))
***********
male_or_female { ; Version 2002 Patchlevel 3
Given the beard, I'd guess: male. Looks cheerful, either way. Morgan L. Owens "But where are the legs???"
Am Freitag, den 10. Mai 2002, um 10:48h schrieb Morgan L. Owens:
'apple males' is the incorrect translation for 'Apfel-Maennchen'. 'apple-man' is a German figurative for mandelbrot-set.
Interesting ... it doesn't really look _that_ much like a person, but it's quite frequently described as one - apple-man, it seems; or snowman (with an aerial sticking out of his head) - even though the figure has to be turned on its side from its convenetional orientation for the description to make sense! I guess it just goes to show something about human neurophysiology - symmetry suggests biology.
I think that symmetry is very important to humans ... behaviourists found out that people with perfectly symmetric faces are more often described as being beautiful and nice (just by looking at pictures showing their faces). I think symmetry is also the key to the fractal's special charm. The human brain needs up to 10 seconds (!) to classify a complex pattern. If it is finally classified there seems to be some 'reward'. I think that this is the reason why most of the PARs are saved with names that resulted from this classification ... not just 'F012039..'. If this classification failes the fractal is described as 'stupid' or 'ugly' or 'nonsense'. I think people who love fractals have less problems with nonrepresentational art while others more often describe it simply as 'nonsense'.
Speaking of names, consider those bifurcation diagrams drawn by Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was investigating the periodicities of iterated functions.
and the funny German translations and 'back-translations': Feigenbaum (Feige <-> fig, Baum <-> tree): "fig tree" I think the "tree" is also supported by the tree-like look of these diagrams. (although a real fig tree looks very different) Mandelbrot (Mandel <-> almond, Brot <-> bread): "almond bread" -- Michael *Weitzel*
At 22:28 26/05/2002, Michael Weitzel wrote:
Am Freitag, den 10. Mai 2002, um 10:48h schrieb Morgan L. Owens:
I guess it just goes to show something about human neurophysiology - symmetry suggests biology.
I think that symmetry is very important to humans ... behaviourists found out that people with perfectly symmetric faces are more often described as being beautiful and nice (just by looking at pictures showing their faces). I think symmetry is also the key to the fractal's special charm.
And symmetrical things tended to be more important in everyday life back when our hardwiring was going on - trees tended not to attack people. Morgan L. Owens "There are only three options. It thinks we're a threat, food or a mate. It's going to kill us, eat us or hump us. We either persuade it we're not that kind of oceanic salvage vessel or we scarper, pronto."
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