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Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World
This article was published by Wired on December 9, 2009. This is not a new news but I still find it amazing. The first time I saw this, I was like, “WHOOAAH! These are beautiful!”
This article was about the Mandelbulb. A group of math geeks created a three-dimensional analogue for the mesmerizing Mandelbrot fractal. The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm to a sphere. The same calculation is applied over and over to the sphere’s points in three dimensions. In spirit, that’s similar to how the original 2-D Mandelbrot set generates its infinite and self-repeating complexity.
Using tiny protein crystals, biologists from the Max Planck Working Groups for Structural Biology and the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology (EMBL) are able to investigate a protein’s exact structure at different beamlines of light using a technique called x-ray crystallography.
Image Source: Max Planck Working Groups for Structural Biology, Hamburg, Germany.
Flying at an altitude of about 240 miles over the eastern North Atlantic, the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed this nighttime scene. This view looks northeastward. Center point coordinates are 46.8 degrees north latitude and 14.3 degrees west longitude. The night lights of the cities of Ireland, in the foreground, and the United Kingdom, in the back and to the right, are contrasted by the bright sunrise in the background. The greens and purples of the Aurora Borealis are seen along the rest of the horizon.
Rudolf Steiner’s second Goetheanum, completed 1928, Dornach, Switzerland
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A tiny clip from one of my favourite films, Mirror, by Andrei Tarkovsky.
