click for large sizeI've been seeing fractals everywhere lately...I think they are following me. This past weekend I was looking for a visual of the internet so I used Google images. I was expecting some sort of network to go along with my thoughts and instead found this wonderful image from Randall Munroe. It's an IP address map of the Internet that he made using fractal mapping on Flatland. Just awesome!
http://flickr.com/photos/75878210@N00/The fractal map that Randall used reminded me of my trip to Mitla in Oaxaca Mexico where I saw the most amazing forms in stone on the ruins. I remember finding a quote on a site about the brain and learning what explains why I'm seeing these fractals eveywhere. In an online article Al Maxwell wrote how the brain determines importance of incoming information is thought to involve pattern recognition. If the brain determines that the new information matches patterns stored previously, then the information will have meaning.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/ This flickr photographer has a wonderful collection of fractal photos....which leads me to think of Pollock. This painting is called "Galaxy."
In Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos John Briggs defines these patterns. He states that a dynamic system's transition areas - the points at which the system moves from simplicity to complexity, from bright, stable order to the black, impenetrable gyrations of total chaos - were the most interesting places. Inside these transition zones and boundary regions, systems degenerate and emerge in patterns and ranges of a system's movement. Though unpredictable in detail, one can predict the patterns and ranges of a system's movement.
So in closing here's my very own chaos painting a la Pollock. You too can play with this fun internet tool. Just click here and drag your mouse.....
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