This image was captured at Hollywood & Highland on the cheesy built in “Red Carpet”.  I was laying on the ground getting some odd perspective shots, when this guy came running down the stairs and jumped over me.

Play the video for added musical effect.

Guitar: canoshiz Bass: HelfMyselp Drums: sickfallout Vocals: a tea tree

Nice one.

I created this fractal using Apophysis, a freeware fractal flame editor for Windows.

From wikipedia, a fractal is:

A fractal is generally “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,”[1] a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.” A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion.[2]

A fractal often has the following features:[3]

* It has a fine structure at arbitrarily small scales.
* It is too irregular to be easily described in traditional Euclidean geometric language.
* It is self-similar (at least approximately or stochastically).
* It has a Hausdorff dimension which is greater than its topological dimension (although this requirement is not met by space-filling curves such as the Hilbert curve).[4]
* It has a simple and recursive definition.

Because they appear similar at all levels of magnification, fractals are often considered to be infinitely complex (in informal terms). Natural objects that approximate fractals to a degree include clouds, mountain ranges, lightning bolts, coastlines, and snow flakes. However, not all self-similar objects are fractals—for example, the real line (a straight Euclidean line) is formally self-similar but fails to have other fractal characteristics; for instance, it is regular enough to be described in Euclidean terms.

Images of fractals can be created using fractal generating software. Images produced by such software are normally referred to as being fractals even if they do not have the above characteristics, as it is possible to zoom into a region of the image that does not exhibit any fractal properties.

I really like the way it repeats with the varied shades of color and light.

Wormhole fractal

“I find the ideas in the fractals, both as a body of knowledge and as a metaphor, an incredibly important way of looking at the world.” Vice President Al Gore, New York Times, Wednesday, June 21, 2000, discussing some of the “big think” questions that intrigue him.

This is a collection of pages meant to support a first course in fractal geometry for students without especially strong mathematical preparation, or any particular interest in science.
Each of the topics contains examples of fractals in the arts, humanities, or social sciences; these and other examples are collected in the panorama.
Fractal geometry is a new way of looking at the world; we have been surrounded by natural patterns, unsuspected but easily recognized after only an hour’s training.

Leaves of Death - an original image