African Fractals - AfroChat - African American

Gorilla · May 10th, 2008, 12:57 AM

Ron Eglash (who was mentioned before on the forum) is an ethno-mathematician gives a roughly 17 minute talk on his work on African fractals. He covers building and organization, art and a few other topics briefly and describes how complex these scalable organizational structures are. There is a brief section on questions he was probably asked frequently since he originally did this project.

TED from 2007: TED | Talks | Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids (video)
His Page: Ron Eglash Home Page
His book: Amazon.com: African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design: Ron Eglash: Books

More information on Fractals:
Fractal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ascension2012 · August 14th, 2008, 07:41 PM

Thanks for this... I love this stuff. Math, art, numbers, nature.....all interlocked.

Voluptuous Miss · August 14th, 2008, 11:50 PM

Ewww....math, gross

afrocentric · August 15th, 2008, 11:03 AM

i'm concuring with ms. vol. however i'm pretty interesting in how this math is different from the math we know.

Ascension2012 · August 15th, 2008, 07:12 PM

Ladies, no no noooo. You must embrace your inner mathematician. It's all around us...

When your favorite jazz musician drops a 7th or 9th onto that chord right before the bridge....that's math.

Or, when a drummer flips the beat to a triplet feel for the last few bars of a solo......straight math goodness.

When you figure out how many more times you can hit the snooze button before you'll be late to work....math.

Two tablespoons of this, half a cup of that....tasty math.

Fashion, Finances, Philosophy.....all math.

skiz · August 15th, 2008, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ascension2012

Ladies, no no noooo. You must embrace your inner mathematician. It's all around us...

When your favorite jazz musician drops a 7th or 9th onto that chord right before the bridge....that's math.

Or, when a drummer flips the beat to a triplet feel for the last few bars of a solo......straight math goodness.

When you figure out how many more times you can hit the snooze button before you'll be late to work....math.

Two tablespoons of this, half a cup of that....tasty math.

Fashion, Finances, Philosophy.....all math.

yeah i'm digging this for sure!!

JABOOM · August 15th, 2008, 09:12 PM

Interesting...more of a literary and psychology fan but anything new is always interesting.

May 10th, 2008, 12:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
Gorilla Afro Resident Join Date: Jan 2005 Gender: Posts: 929 Thanks: 42 Thanked 92 Times in 67 Posts Rep Power: 26 Credits: 7,437	African Fractals Ron Eglash (who was mentioned before on the forum) is an ethno-mathematician gives a roughly 17 minute talk on his work on African fractals. He covers building and organization, art and a few other topics briefly and describes how complex these scalable organizational structures are. There is a brief section on questions he was probably asked frequently since he originally did this project. TED from 2007: TED \| Talks \| Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids (video) His Page: Ron Eglash Home Page His book: Amazon.com: African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design: Ron Eglash: Books More information on Fractals: Fractal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Ascension2012 Afro Resident Occasional 2Cents Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: SF Bay Area Gender: Posts: 35 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Rep Power: 0 Credits: 324	Thanks for this... I love this stuff. Math, art, numbers, nature.....all interlocked.

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Ascension2012 Afro Resident Occasional 2Cents Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: SF Bay Area Gender: Posts: 35 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Rep Power: 0 Credits: 324	Ladies, no no noooo. You must embrace your inner mathematician. It's all around us... When your favorite jazz musician drops a 7th or 9th onto that chord right before the bridge....that's math. Or, when a drummer flips the beat to a triplet feel for the last few bars of a solo......straight math goodness. When you figure out how many more times you can hit the snooze button before you'll be late to work....math. Two tablespoons of this, half a cup of that....tasty math. Fashion, Finances, Philosophy.....all math.