A speaker came to my school on Thursday, his speech was entitled "Chaos Theory and Strange Attractors"
It really wasn't anything about that, but was really about fractals, something us math-retarded art majors could enjoy, looking at the perty duhsigns. This is a Sierpinski Triangle I'm plotting right now:
It's being made by first finding the point in the middle of an equilateral triangle and then picking an end point to that triangle at random. You then make another point in between the starting point and the end point you picked. Whatever point you make is the new starting point. You do this for a couple... million times and you get this:
The craziest thing about this is all is that this wasn't how this triangle was first created, the Sierpinski triangle is a simple fractal; I'm sure you can pick out the pattern of an upside down triangle in the first triangle and then you do the same for the outer triangles.
It was incredibly interesting to see such a complex shape could be made with such a simple algorithm. It seems everything in life could be this simple.
