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Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: keyboardlover on Sun, 07 November 2010, 08:55:38
What are those first two photos of? I've never seen that before.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: keyboardlover on Sun, 07 November 2010, 09:07:02
Wow it's so cool looking...I've never eaten it. Is it good?
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: didjamatic on Sun, 07 November 2010, 09:07:20
Wow, I've seen that before but figured it was photoshopped.

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4056/5153051987_57866bdac6_z.jpg)
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: chongyixiong on Sun, 07 November 2010, 09:33:22
I've always wondered how do you cook them.. just like normal cauliflowers?

How do they taste as well? Cauliflower based?
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: PAINKILLER on Sat, 27 November 2010, 02:56:54
I see patterns emerging.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: Senor_Cartmenez on Mon, 29 November 2010, 11:14:56
Every time I saw this in the supermarket, I thought to myself "this looks weird, if I was a caveman and found this plant in the wild, would I eat it or would I be worried to even touch it?"

I concluded the latter.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: 7bit on Mon, 29 November 2010, 12:42:06
Quote from: Senor_Cartmenez;253837
Every time I saw this in the supermarket, I thought to myself "this looks weird, if I was a caveman and found this plant in the wild, would I eat it or would I be worried to even touch it?"

I concluded the latter.


You would try to find the theory of fractals, for sure![1]


[1] But only until your wife came and took it into a basket :-P

edit:
I remember I had programmed the classic mandelbrot set into a 286 in the late 80ies. It took ages in computing time to produce something which looked like it should (in monocrome for sure!).

Cooking 'Italian Romanesco cauliflower' takes far less time, is 3-dimensional and you can actually eat them!
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: netwebber on Mon, 29 November 2010, 18:19:24
Quote from: 7bit;253872
You would try to find the theory of fractals, for sure![1]


[1] But only until your wife came and took it into a basket :-P

edit:
I remember I had programmed the classic mandelbrot set into a 286 in the late 80ies. It took ages in computing time to produce something which looked like it should (in monocrome for sure!).

Cooking 'Italian Romanesco cauliflower' takes far less time, is 3-dimensional and you can actually eat them!


"Mandelbrot" means "almond bread" in German/Yiddish. I have no idea how that got to be a surname.

Mandelbrot was known to use this pickup line:

Baby, what's your imaginary number? I want to lie with you on the complex plane.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: woody on Mon, 29 November 2010, 19:27:56
Mandelbrot, Zucker / Zuckerman / Zuckerberg.
Names are just names.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: clickclack on Mon, 29 November 2010, 20:02:07
Ahh, Mandelbrot brings back such fond memories of my old After Dark screen saver when I first learned about fractals. Good times =)

Though I must admit that picture does not look particuarly appetizing but the patern is beautiful.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: netwebber on Mon, 29 November 2010, 23:00:31
Quote from: woody;254116
Mandelbrot, Zucker / Zuckerman / Zuckerberg.
Names are just names.


Zuckerman is someone who sells candy (Sugar-man). "Zuckerberg" means "sugar mountain," which is a common name for a place. Indeed, most German names are occupations or places (topographic). Mandelbrot is probably an exception.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: PAINKILLER on Tue, 30 November 2010, 04:35:32
Well Jews often have all kinds of strange meaning names. A Jew and a Chinese meet and the Jew says:
-You damn Chinese guys, how could you do that to Pearl Harbor!
And the Chinese is like:
-No no, it was the Japanese, not us.
-Chinese, Japanese, whatever...
-And you Jews, how could you sink Titanic!
-Nah, it was just an iceberg.
-Goldberg, Iceberg, whatever...
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: teamfresh on Sun, 05 December 2010, 08:34:32
At this point I feel that I should make people aware of this animation created using the original Mandelbrot fractal set equation plotted in the 3D complex plane...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMLOBkJltIw
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: audioave10 on Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:55:04
fractals ftw
mesmerizing my brain...
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 19 February 2011, 18:59:29
Quote from: ripster;297512
Spotted this at Canv.as
Show Image
(http://canv.as/ugc/original/1b28f6a354a05ea97dacfc63f9903e33dd7be39d.gif)


That would  make a  great  avatar.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: REVENGE on Mon, 14 November 2011, 16:15:55
Period 3 => Chaos.
Title: Today I Learned (TIL) That Benoît Mandelbrot Died In October
Post by: dorkvader on Tue, 15 November 2011, 00:54:59
Look up the mandelbulb: (3D mandlebrot). it's pretty cool.

Also, wikipedia has an excellent listing of fractals by dimension, with common food items thrown in for comparison. It's pretty exciting.

Y'know the mandlebrot set (and the related julia set) are probably some of the most studied fractals? It's really amazing what you can find in there.

The Koch Snowflake has infinite surface area, bun encloses finite area.

I used to be big into fractals (see my avatar)
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Sorry to hear about mandlebrot, he brought the world of fractals mainstream.