Spheres drawn in papert
Were you one of the kids who spent their days messing around with Logo, drawing whatever odd shapes came to mind?
You can now relive the past, for Thomas Edward Figg, or tef as he calls himself on Something Awful, has made a JavaScript-based Logo interpreter. Now you can watch the Koch snowflake, the Hilbert curve or whatever else your mind happens to think up unfold itself before your very eyes — without having to leave your browser window!
So I urge you, click on any of the examples I linked before — or if you’re extremely lazy, click here:
If you want example code to run, I can suggest checking out the Something Awful thread on papert by the developer himself.
Seeing that I am a student of mathematics, I was very pleased to see this on Digg:
Dr. Benoit Mandelbrot is an internationally acknowledged and recognized mathematician. He originated the field of fractal geometry, and showed how fractals occur in many diverse places, both in nature and mathematics.
Dr. Mandebrot published The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982), recognized by The American Scientist as one of the most influential science books of the 20th Century.
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY was privileged to spend time with Dr. Mandelbrot. He discusses
- How fractal geometry help explain the problems of today
- Examples of fractals in nature and in engineering
- “Mathematical pictures”
- The relationship between fractal geometry and human nature
- The relationship of fractal patterns to human archetypes
Nothing too mathematically complex, but still a nice bit of talk about fractals, their uses and his inspiration.
So, I suppose after having started off my blog with some actual original content, it’s alright for me to share a website I was recommended once, and found myself liking, but sadly lost the address of.
I have found it again and will now share with you the site that is popurls.
- KU “license plate” username changes
- Fun with Manufactoria
- YouTube Title Adder for Chrome
- Dynamic Skype Bot
- How to login to Absalon without having to go through punkt.ku
- papert ― logo in your browser
- GOOD COPY BAD COPY
- 10 “Reasons” Why you Should Not Download FireFox?
- Fractal Geometry – Mathematics and Nature
- Favicons for the hostless
- Sebastian: You forgot a few escapes, a '
- joyharry: ok i installed the script and
- Sartak: Hey this is pretty sweet. Can
- inglebert: Success is not the result of s
- Christian: Would you be interested in mak
- Sam: Thank for very much for this!
- Ashtakahara: Firefox is undoubtedly the bes
