Mandelbrot died
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Its weird how there was no news about this. one of the most significant person in history dies and nobody cares... what a pity.
i guess they didnt make news of it because its a "nerd thing"
these days its all about Big Brother and that kind of shit.
Idiocracy, its coming!
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Edit: i was a bit exaggerating about "no news" thing; i found 1 article about it with google in one finnish news site! woohoo.
i guess they didnt make news of it because its a "nerd thing"
these days its all about Big Brother and that kind of shit.
Idiocracy, its coming!
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Edit: i was a bit exaggerating about "no news" thing; i found 1 article about it with google in one finnish news site! woohoo.
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The average person can name more characters from "Friends" and "Seinfeld" than they can Nobel Prize winners (not counting the Peace prize).
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obama!
I don't know any Friends or Seinfeld characters beyond soupnazi... so I think that means I know of at least as many
I don't know any Friends or Seinfeld characters beyond soupnazi... so I think that means I know of at least as many
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yeah...the literary and peace nobel prizes are the most prestigious by far...(not)
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I said not counting the peace prize.smoth wrote:obama!
I don't know any Friends or Seinfeld characters beyond soupnazi... so I think that means I know of at least as many
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in his memory, we should all eat a Romanesco Broccoli.

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Having tryied that mandelbrot-diet myself (or almondbread as engfags translate) i declare it herefor a fake. I won 5 pound due to that food.
Murrial and burrial time is over. PARTY HARD!
Murrial and burrial time is over. PARTY HARD!
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I've been thinking of doing a 4d ray cast/trace, but I'm not sure I can wrap my mind around it. I'm not even sure generating a true hyperfractal and then rendering it with 4d->3d->2d would be computationally feasible with modern hardware. It'd probably need a 4d equivalent of sparse voxel octree (hyperpixel hexadeci-tree?
). Hell, an accurate 2D mandelbrot set (64-bit zoom levels) needed hundreds of thousands of operations per pixel and that was without any dimensional projection.
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4d doesnt make much sense, try 6d
