I remember seeing these nice fractals in 15112, formed by recursion
CMUScottie
Is the task of mini hw3 a fractal? what is the definition of a fractal?
Max
@CMUScottie you could say the HW3 trees are fractals because they're generated by a self-referential process, but they don't fit the definition on this slide. HW4 will have you implement one of these complex fractals :^)
Arthas007
Are we still using js to implement these fractals?
Gaming_Hippo
For those who are interested, the first image looks like Mandelbrot set.
bcagan
I'd love to know how people come up with a lot of fractals because outside of knowing some are based on real life phenomena, I have never figured out how they are made.
triangle
I'd love to know more information about what the second image is and how it was constructed.
Fractals always remind me of the Coastline Paradox. Basically, coastlines don't seem to have a finite/well-defined length and thus requires approximations to measure them.
Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
0x484884
^The Coastline Paradox is really cool since it seems like such a simple problem to ask. At least for me, it initially seems like it should be easier to calculate the length of a coastline than the area of a piece of land but while the area is well defined, there isn't any real answer to the length of a coastline.
0x484884
Also this video on fractals by 3Blue1Brown is really good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4
miracle
It reminds me of one of the homework in 15-618. The main task is to speed up Mandelbrot Set calculation. Parallel techniques are truly widely used in computer graphics.
kallico
We did a Mandelbrot render in 418. The task was to divide the work between threads for fastest execution time
I remember seeing these nice fractals in 15112, formed by recursion
Is the task of mini hw3 a fractal? what is the definition of a fractal?
@CMUScottie you could say the HW3 trees are fractals because they're generated by a self-referential process, but they don't fit the definition on this slide. HW4 will have you implement one of these complex fractals :^)
Are we still using js to implement these fractals?
For those who are interested, the first image looks like Mandelbrot set.
I'd love to know how people come up with a lot of fractals because outside of knowing some are based on real life phenomena, I have never figured out how they are made.
I'd love to know more information about what the second image is and how it was constructed.
@triangle https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/QuaternionJulia/paper.pdf
Fractals always remind me of the Coastline Paradox. Basically, coastlines don't seem to have a finite/well-defined length and thus requires approximations to measure them.
Read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
^The Coastline Paradox is really cool since it seems like such a simple problem to ask. At least for me, it initially seems like it should be easier to calculate the length of a coastline than the area of a piece of land but while the area is well defined, there isn't any real answer to the length of a coastline.
Also this video on fractals by 3Blue1Brown is really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4
It reminds me of one of the homework in 15-618. The main task is to speed up Mandelbrot Set calculation. Parallel techniques are truly widely used in computer graphics.
We did a Mandelbrot render in 418. The task was to divide the work between threads for fastest execution time