[XCSSA] Plasma fractal...

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

Oh.. it's totally a fractal-- it's obviously self-similar at many levels of
magnifications.
You can't necessarily put an equation on it, that would be able to draw out
a the exact same patterns each time-- the initial conditions would be crazy
hard to replicate ..
But equations like the logistic are really cool to play with to see the
predictable unpredictability of what happens when initial conditions for a
system become "unstable"--
http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~ldb/seminar/logdiffeqn.html

I'm getting me a t-shirt---"Period Three Implies Chaos"



On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:56 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <
xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

>
> X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> > On Jun 5, 2009, at 6:47 AM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Do scorch marks on particle board actually count as fractals?  I
> >> thought
> >> fractals were consistent in their repetition throughout.  Just
> >> wondering
> >> before I go to work, Dennis in Victoria
> >>
> >
> > Real world fractals (as opposed to mathematical ones) have a limit at
> > which they stop being fractal. If nothing else, the size of an atom
> > is a limit to how far you can go.
> >
> > What really makes a fractal a fractal is self-similarity at different
> > magnifications. And the right side of 100_0527.jpg definitely has a
> > fractal branching structure.
> >
> >   - Bruce -
> >
>
> The left part is the "trial and error" part where there sometimes was
> too much water or not enough so to say. It also had some help with some
> extra strands from the wire lying on the board. So let's disregard the
> left side.
>
> The right one is done without any wire strands and relied only on
> getting the amount of moisture correct...
> Is it a fractal? Sure looks like one to me...
> Is my theory of the moisture acting as a ground plane correct? I have no
> idea...
>
> Maybe a presentation at the next XCSSA meeting... ;-)
>
> /Fredrik
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