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Good tool here http://recursivedrawing.com/?fbclid=IwA ... qDG-muwUvM

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Indeed, an excellent tool.


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How the heck do I upload images in a message? There's an image button but it just puts in bracket things. Have checked FAQs...

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How the heck do I upload images in a message? There's an image button but it just puts in bracket things. Have checked FAQs...
You want the Attachments tab below the reply box.

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Also a bog-standard tree thing.
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Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:00 am
Also a bog-standard tree thing.
Hi Stupidosaurus!

I'm not sure this is a 'bog standard tree thing', though. I think it is a quite unusual tree (or stream pattern, or blood vessels, or lightning path, or lung branching etc. etc.) because, other than a few branches which just stop, I think the bifurcation ratio is close to 2*, and the 'distance to next branching' is generally the same after each branch point. I don't think it's an impossible tree, I wouldn't be surprised if there were real examples, but I think many trees have higher bifurcation ratios, and unequal branching.


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Post by jaap » Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:24 pm

Allo V Psycho wrote:
Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:47 am
Stupidosaurus wrote:
Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:00 am
Also a bog-standard tree thing.
Hi Stupidosaurus!

I'm not sure this is a 'bog standard tree thing', though. I think it is a quite unusual tree (or stream pattern, or blood vessels, or lightning path, or lung branching etc. etc.) because, other than a few branches which just stop, I think the bifurcation ratio is close to 2*, and the 'distance to next branching' is generally the same after each branch point. I don't think it's an impossible tree, I wouldn't be surprised if there were real examples, but I think many trees have higher bifurcation ratios, and unequal branching.


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I'm sure Stupidosaurus did not mean it was like a bogstandard real tree, but more that it was a bogstandard example of a Tree Fractal. It may be bogstandard, but it still looks awesome.

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Post by Allo V Psycho » Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:20 pm

jaap wrote:
Fri Feb 21, 2020 12:24 pm
Allo V Psycho wrote:
Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:47 am
Stupidosaurus wrote:
Fri Feb 21, 2020 9:00 am
Also a bog-standard tree thing.
Hi Stupidosaurus!

I'm not sure this is a 'bog standard tree thing', though. I think it is a quite unusual tree (or stream pattern, or blood vessels, or lightning path, or lung branching etc. etc.) because, other than a few branches which just stop, I think the bifurcation ratio is close to 2*, and the 'distance to next branching' is generally the same after each branch point. I don't think it's an impossible tree, I wouldn't be surprised if there were real examples, but I think many trees have higher bifurcation ratios, and unequal branching.


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I'm sure Stupidosaurus did not mean it was like a bogstandard real tree, but more that it was a bogstandard example of a Tree Fractal. It may be bogstandard, but it still looks awesome.
I agree about the awesomeness: those branching patterns just do something pleasurable to my brain! I was writing my reply with Peter Stevens' Patterns in Nature open beside me:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/403 ... -in-nature
Stupidosaurus, you might like that, if you haven't come across it before?

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Post by Stupidosaurus » Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:57 pm

Thanks Allo/Jaap. I was going for 'bog standard' as in 'a standard bifurcating tree' although, looking at it, not all the branches are the same. I couldn't find any way of saving the drawing meta-info (which bits were combined with which) so I'm not even sure I could replicate it. I fell in love with fractals when James Gleick's 'Chaos' book came out, I actually wrote some random-rule point-by-point fractal programs on a Sinclair Spectrum which took about 12 hours to render a grainy image (that should date me) and also bothered some post-grads I knew, who add access to 'real' computers/printers, to print out Julia sets and the like, which I adorned my undergrad room walls with. Hence, interest in the recursive drawing tool. I'll have a look at the book suggestion, though we are short on shelf space and pretty pictures might not work on a Kindle.

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Stupidosaurus wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 1:57 pm
Thanks Allo/Jaap. I was going for 'bog standard' as in 'a standard bifurcating tree' although, looking at it, not all the branches are the same. I couldn't find any way of saving the drawing meta-info (which bits were combined with which) so I'm not even sure I could replicate it. I fell in love with fractals when James Gleick's 'Chaos' book came out, I actually wrote some random-rule point-by-point fractal programs on a Sinclair Spectrum which took about 12 hours to render a grainy image (that should date me) and also bothered some post-grads I knew, who add access to 'real' computers/printers, to print out Julia sets and the like, which I adorned my undergrad room walls with. Hence, interest in the recursive drawing tool. I'll have a look at the book suggestion, though we are short on shelf space and pretty pictures might not work on a Kindle.
I played with my own Julia Set generator (on a Sinclair QL) back in the day, including the step of plotting the JS coordinates onto the Mandelbrot set.

I discovered for myself how the periodicity of the JS relates to its position on the Mandelbrot set. It wasn't a first discovery, but it was very satisfying.
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Post by basementer » Sun Feb 23, 2020 5:51 pm

I immediately thought "Peitgen and Richter" and now I wonder if I can possibly have remembered the names accurately, decades later? Anyway, it was a coffee table book called "The Beauty of Fractals" published in the mid to late 80s. One of the articles therein called the Mandelbrot set an encyclopedia of the Julia sets, and that's what you discovered.
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Here's the 'Barnsley Fern' fractal drawn in Excel using a 'random rule' transformation of a starting x,y position.
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basementer wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 5:51 pm
I immediately thought "Peitgen and Richter" and now I wonder if I can possibly have remembered the names accurately, decades later? Anyway, it was a coffee table book called "The Beauty of Fractals" published in the mid to late 80s. One of the articles therein called the Mandelbrot set an encyclopedia of the Julia sets, and that's what you discovered.
I knew about the Mandelbrot Set being the map of Julia Sets; rather, my discovery was the mapping to periodicity.
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Stupidosaurus wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:50 pm
Here's the 'Barnsley Fern' fractal drawn in Excel using a 'random rule' transformation of a starting x,y position.Barnsley Fern in Excel.png
Ah, I remember when Byte magazine (anyone else remember that?) published a recursive fern drawing piece of Postscript code - I manage to lock up a Dec laser printer for about ten minutes printing a fern about 1.5" long. Get away with by claiming it was a test - I was system admin at the time. ;)
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Aitch wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:23 pm
Stupidosaurus wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:50 pm
Here's the 'Barnsley Fern' fractal drawn in Excel using a 'random rule' transformation of a starting x,y position.Barnsley Fern in Excel.png
Ah, I remember when Byte magazine (anyone else remember that?) published a recursive fern drawing piece of Postscript code - I manage to lock up a Dec laser printer for about ten minutes printing a fern about 1.5" long. Get away with by claiming it was a test - I was system admin at the time. ;)
A former, and older, colleague once implemented a whole bunch of radio-astronomy data analysis algorithms in Postscript, as the easiest powerful processor to get access to and tie up for a while was the group printer.

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dyqik wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:50 pm

A former, and older, colleague once implemented a whole bunch of radio-astronomy data analysis algorithms in Postscript, as the easiest powerful processor to get access to and tie up for a while was the group printer.
A hat tip for that hack.

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dyqik wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:50 pm
Aitch wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 2:23 pm
Stupidosaurus wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:50 pm
Here's the 'Barnsley Fern' fractal drawn in Excel using a 'random rule' transformation of a starting x,y position.Barnsley Fern in Excel.png
Ah, I remember when Byte magazine (anyone else remember that?) published a recursive fern drawing piece of Postscript code - I manage to lock up a Dec laser printer for about ten minutes printing a fern about 1.5" long. Get away with by claiming it was a test - I was system admin at the time. ;)
A former, and older, colleague once implemented a whole bunch of radio-astronomy data analysis algorithms in Postscript, as the easiest powerful processor to get access to and tie up for a while was the group printer.
Just curious, is that anything to do with PostScript's similarity to Forth and Forth being used by radio astronomers back in the 70's?

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