A student in Colorado, looking for some sort of synthesis--the big picture, encompassing all the strangeness in the universe--but willing to settle for the philosophic or poetic lens.
Picture a Julia set, in shades of deep blue and green, with stretching, white spiral arms, decorated with fractal Brownian motion, which leaves hazy boundaries between shades of cloud, land, and open ocean:
It might resemble a hurricane. Of course, a relatively simple geometric structure like a fractal has nothing on Mother Nature. You can adjust variables all day, but never get the delicate coastline of Baja California, as a hurricane approaches:
Hurricane John nears Baja, California, moving north-northwest at 8 mph, with sustained winds near 110 mph.
I've been keeping up with the latest storm stories thanks to my SciBling, Chris Mooney, who has been detailing the hurricane season on his blog, The Intersection. For more on hurricane John, or Super Typhoon Ioke, now approaching Japan, be sure to check out his site.
So, where is John heading?
For more information on Hurricane John, or for the source of the images used above, please visit the NOAA. All fractals made by the author using ChaosPro.
Comments
Beautiful pictures - that butterfly flapping its wings in China sure caused a big storm!
Posted by: Matt | September 1, 2006 9:40 PM
It is possible that the butterfly in question was frolicking with another at the time. You know those butterfly sluts.
Posted by: Karmen | September 1, 2006 10:53 PM
Great match! I have always thought of fractals as representing nature if nature were perfect.
Also, it seems to go the other way: by taking more factors into consideration, Chaos might be a good system to determine what will happen next.
Posted by: Drew | September 3, 2006 7:01 PM
“It is better to foresee without certainty than not to foresee at all.”
--Henri Poincare
Posted by: Karmen | September 7, 2006 10:44 AM
Nice fractals of cloud vortices that collerates with the hurricane. Would like to use this image of yours in one of my web page if you have no objecton, proper acknowledgement will be mentioned.
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