Fractals for Darren
10/04/2008 04:51:00 pmDarren Draper dropped by, left a nice comment, and included the observation that the place needed a little fractal beauty to spice it up a bit. This is for you Darr!
Photo source: Natural Fractal Mosaic by flickr user dkuropatwa
3 comments
I love it!
ReplyDeleteI used to do an assignment where my students would take pictures of Geometry concepts. They would then throw the pictures in a PowerPoint. Nothing like the pros do with Flickr ;) but this was before I knew that Flickr even existed.
Along the lines of fractals, I found that my students always liked to see pictures of digital camouflage - which is a small scale application for fractals. This page is sweet, for example, for showing jets and buildings with and without digital camouflage.
Amazing stuff.
Oh I do so love it when people start talking fractals :)
ReplyDeleteCheck out some software I use & a piece of digital story 'questioning' that the kids created here.
http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/math/fractals.htm
cheers
Adrain
Not sure if you saw this yet, but this page is FULL of math:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/earth_observed.html
Start by showing the kids this new TED talk about calculus and architecture, continue with the satellite images of earth, and WOW!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/greg_lynn_on_organic_design.html