Fractal Architecture http://localhost/taxonomy/term/288/all en The genesis of complex geometry http://localhost/2009/06/21/the-genesis-of-complex-geometry <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I don't believe that there is a dichotomy between a supposedly modern and traditional architecture. Instead there exist different geometric processes, and while traditionally builders have employed nesting processes in their work, for perhaps no other reason than it came naturally to them, modern builders have restricted themselves to linear geometric processes due to drawing their inspiration from Cartesian science and engineering.</p></div></div></div> Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:54:09 +0000 Mathieu Helie 135 at http://localhost A demonstration of complexity in London http://localhost/2008/03/09/a-demonstration-of-complexity-in-london <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden prose"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The immensely productive Physicist-Mathematician-Entrepreneur <a href="http://www.wolframscience.com">Stephen Wolfram</a> theorized, based on his studies of cellular automatons in the 1980's, that there exists four classes of physical processes in the universe. Class I is simple continuous behavior (line). Class II is repetitive behavior (checkerboard). Class III is nested, hierarchical-fractal behavior (basic fractals like the Sierpinski triangle). Class IV, the most fascinating, is chaotic behavior (random fractals such as the Mandelbrot Set).</p></div></div></div> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:52:54 +0000 Mathieu Helie 90 at http://localhost