{"id":345,"date":"2008-09-18T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-09-18T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T17:08:00","slug":"an-eniwetok-atoll-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"An Eniwetok Atoll of the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"


icecap02.loo<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

In Mandelbrot’s greatest scenes we seem to see
that stunning moment in which
mathematics became
fissionable<\/p>\n

They pour upon the monitor
dice roll symphonies
parameter powered
plutonium geraniums
perfect in dirtless reality<\/p>\n

I have seen the brightest minds of my generation
mouse-click crawling
down the spiral streets at dawn
looking for that heavenly
something that isn’t self-similar<\/p>\n

The spiral twists and tricks
us into twisting along with it
mathematicians bail out here
but the artists ask why
why is it all the same?<\/p>\n

The mathematicians come and go
talking of something I don’t know<\/p>\n

Johnny Appleseeds
virtually respected
plant the same formula
in every forum they pass
and quickly link away<\/p>\n

The threads have strange usernames
tweak holes in digital doilies
clamp chaos in cuff-links
the uninformed in uniform
with engines
that devour our bandwidth<\/p>\n

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icecap02.loo In Mandelbrot’s greatest scenes we seem to seethat stunning moment in whichmathematics becamefissionable They pour upon the monitordice roll symphoniesparameter poweredplutonium geraniumsperfect in dirtless reality I have seen the brightest minds of my generationmouse-click crawlingdown the spiral streets at dawnlooking for that heavenlysomething that isn’t self-similar The spiral twists and tricksus into twisting along … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":421,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=421","url_meta":{"origin":345,"position":0},"title":"Force 10 from Navarone!","author":"Tim","date":"19 October, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"In keeping with the Phase 2 idea that the essence of fractal art is found in the imagery and not in the tools that made it, I present a mixed bag of things I found while taking the paths less traveled, or never traveled, to find fractal art.\u00a0 I followed\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=421#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":359,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=359","url_meta":{"origin":345,"position":1},"title":"Classic Fractal Art by Jock Cooper","author":"Tim","date":"30 December, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"fractal-81786 by Jock Cooper (click for full-size image)I've reviewed Jock Cooper before. 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