Tuesday 28 April 2009

African fractals

Eglash greeted many African families while researching the intriguing fractal patterns he noticed in villages across the continent. He talks about his work exploring the rigorous fractal mathematics underpinning African architecture, art and even hair braiding.




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2 comments:

  1. so what is he saying, that we just happen to be building these things by intuitiohn

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  2. That some of it could have been just by accident but the majority was from the understanding of the geometric shapes,the sole mathematics behind the Fractals..

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