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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: fractals as bad science
Message-ID: <5663@eos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 17:16:47 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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In article <14203@cc.usu.edu> SL195@cc.usu.edu (A banana is not a toy) writes:
>OK.  So fractals haven't found a great use YET.

Thank you for your honest open thoughts. 8)

>of chaos.  Chaos, when the mathematics behind it are slowly worked out,
>(admittedly (probably) many year hence) promises techniques to help solve
>nasty non-linear differential equations.

Oh?!  Well this will be news 8).  Promises?  Scouts honor and hope to die?
As Bronowski said, "There is a difference between knowledge and certainty."

There are no royal roads to mathematics. (guess who said that.)
Somehow, I do not think computer graphics is a royal road; my classes
in 1977 on catastophe theory have taught me that.

Anyway, enough of this. please.  Let's move onto other things.

Another gross generalization from

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