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From: eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: IBM Mandelbrot commercial
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Date: 13 May 88 20:23:29 GMT
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In article <1245@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes:
>In article <4513@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes:
>>Has anybody else seen the new IBM commercial with B. Mandelbrot at a screen. 
>
>IBM says that by using fractals, they can create images AS real as Nature.
>Well, almost :-).  Actually, IBM invented nature, yeah, that's the ticket!
>I found the tone of this ad really amusing.  I was just waiting for them
>to say, "Remember the triangle?  That was our's too!"

Richard Voss showed these images at ACM'84 and he made a very sigificant
aesthetic point about non-naive audiences: real geologists looking at those
images don't recognize any familiar rock structures in those mountains.
Voss's mountains don't look really natural to professionals.  Loren
Carpenter may have some similar experiences.  In time
these people have impressed patterns for the three different rock groups
[you know: ingenious, sedentary, and metaphoric] and the types of peaks
they form, nor can they be simple alien worlds, take some classes in
planetary science or geology.  Have fun.

Just say no to fractals :: J. Bloomenthal ;-)

Another gross generalization from

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