[quote]A zoom into the “Seahorse Valley” region of the Mandelbrot Set. Set to “La Villageoise” by Rameau, performed by Trevor Pinnock. (Music — and therefore this video — are subject to the Creative Commons license. Check out www.magnatune.com.)[/quote]
Due articoli molto interessanti che spiegano ai profani come me diverse forme matematiche, dai frattali alle spirali agli iperboloidi.
Il [url=http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/29/a-non-math-look-at-math-objects/]primo [/url]ed il [url=http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/10/a-non-math-look-at-math-shapes/]secondo[/url].
M’ha intrigato la parte sugli iperboloidi, come si può realizzare un solido apparentemente curvo con sole linee rette:
[quote]Now, take a handful of uncooked spaghetti noodles. Use two hands, and twist the strands loosely. It forms the shape of a hyperboloid structure, which looks like a cooling tower at a nuclear reactor. All the spaghetti noodles are still straight, but the shape of the handful is curved.[/quote]