Arthur Clarke - Fractals - The Colors Of Infinity 5 of 6

[pjennings0001]

makes sense to relate the brain to the m-set, the imagination is infinite, like the infinite zoom of a fractal set.....it allows the imagination to be the only thing thats bigger on the inside then the outside, like one of these sets seems to be

[Garlowin]

Errrr. I hate to admit this...RE:stevemilwa 's post but also use to do the same thing when i was like 6 or 7 and see vivid shapes. Though only in two colours purple and yellow. But there where many different shapes

[Garlowin]

Errrr. I hate to admit this...RE:stevemilwa 's post but also use to do the same thing when i was like 6 or 7 and see vivid shapes. Though only in two colours purple and yellow. But there where many different shapes

[lala09990]

Party! For science...

[JackassBauer1]

The brain is an iteration of the deep space web like shaped galaxy clusters. Dark matter is a part of the fractal that our limited experience is not rendering ;)

[TheLovesoul1]

@JackassBauer1 dark matter doesn't exist this is all there is i advice you study true science please because you sound like a retard no offence. think for yourself and stop parroting academiac bullshit.

[stevemilwa]

I think i might have experienced what hes talking about. Bare with me here, but when i was 11-12, i was lying down in bed with my hands pushed against my eyes, seeing all the wierd colours, when all of a sudden the colours burst into life, and i saw an ant hill with loads of ants crawling out! it was incredible, so much detail, i could control where i was looking around this ant hill just by thinking where i wanted to go.

[stevemilwa]

The strange thing is, i could zoom up to one of these ants and see it in its every detail, i mean i was 12, i didnt know how an ant looked up close, but somehow i knew every little detail down to how man legs it has and everything!

I cant try to explain this to anyone because they either think im crazy or i imagined it. I was fully concious and not on any 'drugs' like the man said is possible to achieve through.

[AresCosmos]

i love the old guy's smirk

[Hyardacil]

What year is this documentary made?

[flashbuilding]

OK who the hell would dislike this? 4 ppl disliked it.

[Legeon86]

Oh my goodness, his brain solved fractal problems in dreams. :o

[cmsahe]

exactly I was thinking of hallucinogens too and, we do not have fractal texture in images yet. (for that one who commented below that this is outdated)

[D3adGoon]

Ha! Love the self-plagiarism at 2:23

[ksail2000]

And God said, " I am the alpha and the omega. the beginning and the end. I am everything and nothing." hummm... infinity. Is God the Mandolbrot set?

[633336]

get a grip ppl, this is dated....wake up to nanotech and genome/genetic research...

[Thetrendyamoeba]

No such thing as coincidence :)

[kaptenmax]

i've seen mandelbrot sets live on mushrooms!

[twemski]

Wow!!! Can the same thing be done with Sound? So instead of hearing a 48 bit sample. The comp could fill in the gaps without using higher sample rate? That would be fucking cool.

[jodroboxes]

7:50  true

[hrbear]

At 7:31 I had tried it many times when I was a kid. You see fractal images really. It was like magic, because you get deeper and deeper in this fractals, or they dissapear and change colors. I tried to pressure a little more my closed eye, and then the colors changed or the shapes started to be different.

[consigs92]

trippin

[spashiee]

ZOOM IN AND ENHANCE

[nikradogna]

4:46 i want this program.

[Ulmdorgr]

$160.

[hrbear]

@nikradogna I tried the smoothing feature in programs like Paint Shop pro. They redraw the details based on neighbour pixels. Well they propably not based on fractals, but they do some work.

[Nakengi9]

Blue Ray

[HappyBirthdaySANTA]

we're all a pin ball bouncing around in a machine not knowing where we came from, where we are & where we're goin!!! maybe that's why the moment before death is so overwhelming!! we let go!!!

[GreeenT27]

hahaha have you guys seen 2001: A Space Oddysey? of course this dudes tried lsd. and so has david gilmour who produced the music for this video... lmao.

[absurdmike]

great video, but i wish it didn't have the cheesy music. It grates on my nerves and makes the video more difficult to watch.

[Davidsim1]

Nah. You just have to lie back and enjoy.

[HorusAmenRa]

At the end of this part 5 of 6, he says fractals were discovered. It was "Mathematically-Understood" not "Discovered"

I'm not disagreeing with Clarke, just disagreeing with 1 word.

Ancient people Knew about this but they did not have computers.

[TemplarX2]

@HorusAmenRa Indeed, fractals applications are pretty common in Africa but sadly nowhere else. Many of their villages are organized according to fractal and their hair braids are also in fractals. Check the video of Fractals and Africa. A mathematician went there to study them.

[iArsalan]

Interesting how he tried to make a religious connection at the end of this segment. The priests of Ifa, Voodoo, and various other religious traditions in Africa have used fractals in art and education for millennia.

The divination system of Ifa and Voodoo uses a deterministic chaos system which is the precursor to binary logical processors.

Africa is home to cities and villages consciously built to replicate natural fractal patterns.

See the video Ron Eglash: African Fractals.

[tayloreh]

I hope everyone sees a Tim and Eric Awesome Show episode called 'Universe', because that makes much less sense than fractals... :) its just a perfect parody of when all these meta-intellectual videos lose most of their audience :)

yet, I'm sure can be seen as governed by fractals at the same time...

[guadalupejoe1]

maybe NRO should not be thought of as the big bad wolf after all... even though it is rated high on the NWO illuminati pie chart.....

[MilesBennetDyson]

"Also I am told, but I have never tried the experiment myself..." Yeah, right. :P

[Oxydox]

OH THAT'S HOW COMPRESSING WORKS

[AllFractUp]

He pressed on his eyes to see hallucinatory-like patterns? Jeesh, there's a whole world of copy cats out there who'll be pressing on their eyes and/or using hallucinogenic substances just to see the wild patterns of fractals.

Better off looking at them while you're sober then when you're drugged or going blind :P

[jmm1233]

they use the fern system in Vue6 to make plants

[wolffrankenstein]

Bahaha... illegal drugs. Yes! I have! And it's true... sometimes...

[theboombody]

Arthur C. Clarke knew he'd get a laugh from that one. I'm surprised he said it.

[dizzo95]

As a kid I would magnify 8mm movie film and thought that was the best way to compress images called Micro Photographs

Now to store COMPRESS and amplify pictures / data expressed in a digits stream ( string ) without any movement using fractals ? stored within a micro chip and its 1000s of circuits that was etched and patterned from a Micro Photograph of a micro chip to begin with - the whole process is like a fractal itself where one is the positive process and the other a negative

[dhwgrooves]

fractal imaging is genious!

[Pressence101]

Has anyone notice there are fractals in the spiritual aspects of life? It's not just visual. That's something easier for me to experience that explain, really.

[LBTennis]

Well can you try to explain a little

[Pressence101]

it's real hard to explain. It's like there's emotional fractals, or cycles in life. Things that seem to happen time, and time again. The same, but different.

[kastrato90]

where can i find a fractal image compression program? (the parrot example)

[andrewjbren]

OnOne Plug-In Suite 3, Kai Power Tools to create fractals. You will need Photoshop to use these plugins.

[greg5566]

I'm smart. I asked this question, and then 10 seconds later they started talking about compression technology!

[greg5566]

This stuff they are hinting at about compression technology is fascinating. Did it ever come to fruition? I know the gif algorithm doesn't work that way at all, but is any other compression algorithm using what they are describing here?

[d3p3ch3mod3]

Vue7 uses fractals to generate large landscapes for movies like pirates of the caribbean

[greg5566]

Yes, but _only_ movies like pirates of the caribbean. Never movies like Batman.

[d3p3ch3mod3]

Batman doesn't need a complex fractal generated environment because it uses no CGI jungles, islands, etc.. Most of the time they use real locations but for things like PofC, or the Incredibles, etc..

[LittleJack15]

God! Goosespots.

[Trancecoach]

This entire series is RIFE with musical references to Pink Floyd!

[do5e]

David Gilmour & Pink Floyd Music Publishers did the music for this video

[d3p3ch3mod3]

i think philipp glass emulations wouldve been more appropriate than pink floyd... more wonder less drugs

[greg5566]

You know, philip glass music is in a way analogous to fractals. He has a pattern, and repeats it at different speeds, different levels, and so on.

In a way, as well, this concept of fractals contradicts Godel Escher Bach, which says there is a kind of "limit" to complexity, beyond which intelligence is born.

[petergibb111]

dear do5e thankyou for shareing the subject i remember watching the open university about 2 or 3 in the morning in the ninetys and the subject cropped up afew times thanks for helping me catch up

[ofeydofey]

@do5e know anywhere i can get the soundtrack?

[stuboyah]

@do5e Yr kidding!! Lol, I was gonna accuse them of totally ripping off Pink Floyd!!

[djd259th]

@Trancecoach I noticed that too, from Obscured by Clouds I think...

[niansenx]

As a child I used to squeeze my eyes and see stars. Was a gazing at universe? It all links together! Wow!

[tigno323]

damnnnnn

[RogerDodger69]

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