16th
November
2009
More than random images
About twenty years ago, I fell in love with a piece of software that created fractal images. Finally, I said to myself (and anyone else who would listen), a practical use for higher mathematics. The designs were decidedly non-random, but they provided a visual tool for exploring certain facets of chaos theory (the reason why even wrong answers to mathematics questions have a place in the imaginary universe). I zoomed and I colour-cycled and had a good time in two-dimensional space. EGA was so much cooler than CGA for such efforts. My 13 inch monitor was a window into a world that had nothing to do with WordStar.
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