[comp.graphics] fractals and chaos

rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (01/13/90)

Feb 90 Scientific American has a pictorial article describing both in the
human body.  Fractal-like growth can explain how a relatively small amount
of single growth information can result in apparently complex organ structures.
The reason is that large scale structures mimic small scale structures, so
less hereditary information is necessary.
The deterministic chaos part of the article hypothesizes how fractal-like
growth is acheived.