As I’ve said, there was a period of my “fractal life” where I was somehow compelled so to speak (by stupid group of users) to make a huge number of images in a short period of time (come on, you must be creative they said), and it became a job. They might also be trimmed down at some point, removing images I don’t care much about them anymore. it’s too boring to add each image again, add a description, etc etc. They will posted individually, sometimes with a short description of anything relevant (where I got its name inspiration, how many time it took to render, etc), sometimes just with the name of the image. Images won’t be added to galleries, unless I change my mood. I haven’t also explored what is new in terms of security and plugins to find if there is still interesting to be added to the site, but the basic that will happen from now on is ġ. Some changes might happen though but they aren’t exacly definitive. As Yong Mao puts it, “we could just upload our different designs to a program and people could download and print off the structures at home.I’ve decided to return here for good. And because 3D printing is just beginning to improve itself, we might find very soon that printing such strong and lightweight objects would turn out to be quite useful and efficient. Then, you might ask yourself – if these structures are so efficient, why haven’t we seen more of its applications in the world around ? ’s because the resources used in manufacturing such intricate patterns outweigh the potential benefits.at least that was the case until high quality 3D printing came along. The amazing thing is that with each further generation, such a fractal design gains another two orders of magnitude in the strength versus mass ratio, making the range of possibilities really interesting. ![]() Trying to quantify the advantages of this type of structures, the team calculated that if they were to replace for example a beam made from solid steel from a crane boom with a generation-1 model, the fractal pattern would turn out to be 100 times lighter than the initial simple beam. On the left side is an example of a “ generation-1” element – the fractal rule, and on the right, after a further iteration, the “ generation-2” type structure. The iterations can be repeated further as long as the manufacturing limitations permit such a thing – the advantage being, the calculations show, that with each generation, less material is needed to support a given load. The advantage of such structures is that they turn out to be both very strong and very light. Yong Mao, a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, UK and his colleagues have developed new kinds of load bearing structures that use fractal patterns. To name a few famous examples: the image and sound compression algorithms that we nowadays use more than we can imagine to applications like fractal antennas used in mobile phones today are just two of the many places where fractals are embedded in our modern world. The technology applications soon followed. Mandelbrot published his work on what he defined as fractals, swarms of ideas exploded in the minds of scientist: they turned out to be an astonishing revelation in understanding the structure of the universe – from the cosmological scale down to the patterns of biological organisms. Remember fractals? Those incredible structures that arise from the apparent random variability of both the mathematical and the real universe. He discovered it by exploring the apparent dull 2D space of what are called the imaginary or complex numbers – a relatively simple construct that has been known to mathematics since the 17th century. ![]() ![]() The pattern seen above is part of the fractal that prof.
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