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From: SL195@cc.usu.edu (A banana is not a toy)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: fractals as bad science
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Date: 30 Nov 89 21:46:14 GMT
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>>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."

Considering that a nobel-prize material has been brought forth  with the help 
of insights that  are gained from chaos,

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> 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.

What did I ever say in relationship to computer graphics????  I'm talking
about *chaos*. Fractals are but a mere subset of chaos.

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