Comments on: Geometry Waiting http://secretvespers.com/2007/11/09/geometry-waiting/ by Patrick Edwards-Daugherty Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:37:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: somerled http://secretvespers.com/2007/11/09/geometry-waiting/#comment-586 somerled Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:07:29 +0000 http://comicpress.secretvespers.com/2007/11/09/geometry-waiting/#comment-586 At the time I was visiting a radio telescope facility and something about the shape of, and shapes in, the telescopes struck me. I was wondering about how the shape of the instrument might suggest something about (what we know about) the thing it is measuring, and also thinking about how patterns and distributions reappear on many scales — as you say, fractals. At the time I was visiting a radio telescope facility and something about the shape of, and shapes in, the telescopes struck me.

I was wondering about how the shape of the instrument might suggest something about (what we know about) the thing it is measuring, and also thinking about how patterns and distributions reappear on many scales — as you say, fractals.

]]> By: MalikTous http://secretvespers.com/2007/11/09/geometry-waiting/#comment-584 MalikTous Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:58:54 +0000 http://comicpress.secretvespers.com/2007/11/09/geometry-waiting/#comment-584 You just defined 'fractals'. You just defined ‘fractals’.

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