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From: roland@cochise
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: fractals as bad science
Keywords: Fractals, ugh!, mathematicians, pure, applied, non-
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Date: 30 Nov 89 12:44:49 GMT
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Allow my 2 pfennige to the discussion on the scienceness of fractals:

In article <3842@puff.cs.wisc.edu> zerr@schaefer (Troy Zerr) writes:

]      Am I to conclude that islands are constructed by some geological 
] process of repeated subdivision?  Of course not!  All I have done is to
] produce a picture which looks (to me) like an island.  

Have you ever thought of the possibility that fractals might be not a model
of _physical_ processes, but a model of _perceptional_ processes ?

It is quite plausible to assume that human (visual(?)) apperception is
indeed based on repeated subdivision ( it is well known since ancient :-)
times that perceptional measures all are logarithmically scaled ).

So fractals _are_ 


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