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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:03 AM
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Is today "fractal day" or something?


The associated query is http://www.google.com.br/images?q=julia+fractals -- lots of kickass images there. What's the reason?
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:08 AM
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1. groovy
I'm freaking out man!
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:11 AM
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2. google bomb?
maybe?
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:29 AM
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6. no
its to honor Julia's Birthday
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:12 AM
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3. Gaston Maurice Julia
Born: 3 Feb 1893 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria

When only 25 when Gaston Julia published his 199 page masterpiece Mémoire sur l'iteration des fonctions rationelles which made him famous in the mathematics centres of his days.

Although he was famous in the 1920s, his work was essentially forgotten until B Mandelbrot brought it back to prominence in the 1970s through his fundamental computer experiments.

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Julia.html
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:18 AM
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5. Many many thanks!!!
Edited on Tue Feb-03-04 09:20 AM by JCCyC
Aren't those folks at Google the coolest of the cool? :yourock:

Edit: typo
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:13 AM
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4. Follow-up -- the poor sods didn't stand a chance!
D'oh!

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/fractals/quaternionjulia/
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-03-04 09:43 AM
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7. Ty Power's birthday - big parade in Boston!
Ty is the back up quarterback - and it is his birthday - and we will have a parade!

:-)
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