A deeply unsettling GIF

[hecep]

@anon30760835

I takes about 6

Your post is a fractal of @semiotix.

[anon73430903]

[hecep]

@anon24181555

I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve. I fear the Cantor Ternary Set. The Sierpinski Gasket makes me wanna cry.

Don’t be sad. Here. Come back to us.

[anon73430903]

You are Bob Howard and I claim my £5.

[anon78706664]

The eventual finish is more disappointing than it is unsettling…

[anon15383236]

@generic_name

If you look closely you can actually see the peninsula grow out of the coast, beginning as a tiny sliver below the larger peninsulas.

Is that your sliver of land growing into a peninsula, or am I just excited to be recursively seeing you?

[redesigned]

Fractal posts activate…

[RadioSilence]

That’s exactly what it’s like. And this is a problem with measuring coastlines - the closer you get, and the more fidelity you measure them with, the longer they get

[RadioSilence]

Oh, and if we’re talking about fractals, it’s time to bust out my favourite fractal fact

The inital B in Benoit B Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot

[AnthonyC]

Also, “PHP” stands for “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor.”

And @anon24181555, I hear you can cut the whole thing into 5 pieces and reassemble them into two fractal coastlines.

[7lions]

My recollection is that fractals have fractional dimension, but one presumes that there are recursive figures with integral dimension.

I could probably look this up, and I probably will. But for now, I’ll just pose the question: Is everything that’s recursive fractal?

[Auld_Lang_Syne]

@anon24181555

I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve. I fear the Cantor Ternary Set.

Thank you for reminding me of it.

Jonathan Coulton 5-15-09 - Mandelbrot Set

[emo_pinata]

[anon30760835]

@anon24181555

The Sierpinski Gasket makes me wanna cry.

I blew a Sierpinski Gasket once, but then I came down.

[LurkingGrue]

[larrycovey]

Yep, it’s reductionism, all the way to the bottom.

[adam_lesh]

I recognize that approach. I started flying into that airport in the mid-90s.

I still am.

[Medievalist]

@7lions

Is everything that’s recursive fractal?

No, I don’t believe so. Infinite name resolution recursion loops aren’t fractal.

Caveat, I am not a math guy, and math has special language that sometimes conflicts with common usage.

[just_ok]

Watch it to the very end

[anon30760835]

@anon15383236

Is that your sliver of land growing into a peninsula, or am I just excited to be recursively seeing you?

I’ll have to Mull of Kintyre that one over