Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: fractals as bad science
Message-ID: <1247@becker.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 89 17:31:58 GMT
References: <119.256E54C5@uscacm.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <119.256E54C5@uscacm.UUCP> Jim.McNamee@p7.f12.n376.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim McNamee) writes:
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|   Mark T Vandewettering writes:
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|"Fractal geometry may be able to generate images which are convincing images
|of nature (and even this I might contest) but this in no way indicates anything
|about the mechanism that generates such phenomena."
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|   In the strictest sense, that's true.  But it should be pointed out that the
|   same criticism must be leveled against Euclidean geometry.  Only man and a
|   few uninteresting natural phenomena rely on that branch of mathematics to
|   create the world you see.

	Excellent point, can be easily generalized ...

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