ruffwork@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) (05/09/88)
Has anybody else seen the new IBM commercial with B. Mandelbrot at a screen. The camera zooms "into" the screen, pans around a fractal landscape for awhile, then zooms out through a cloud cover into space, finally coming back out of the monitor and stoping while overlooking Mandelbrot working again. Pretty neat little commercial... --ritchey ruff ruffwork@cs.orst.edu -or- ...!hp-pcd!orstcs!ruffwork
chernoff@dirac.berkeley.edu (05/11/88)
Yes, it's a wonderful promo for Mandelbrot. Too bad it doesn't mention that all those beautiful landscapes (and the programming ideas behind them) are due to Voss. Well, that's show biz. * Paul R. Chernoff chernoff@cartan.berkeley.edu * * Department of Mathematics ucbvax!cartan!chernoff * * University of California * * Berkeley, CA 94720 *
baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (05/12/88)
In article <4513@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes: >Has anybody else seen the new IBM commercial with B. Mandelbrot >at a screen. IBM says that by using fractals, they can create images AS real as Nature. Well, almost :-). Actually, IBM invented nature, yeah, that's the ticket! I found the tone of this ad really amusing. I was just waiting for them to say, "Remember the triangle? That was our's too!" -- -Ken Baer. // Hash Enterprises: When the Going gets Weird, the Weird go Professional \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP, BIX - kbaer, "while (AINTGOTNOSATISFACTION) { do stuff }" - RJ Mical
eugene@pioneer.arpa (Eugene N. Miya) (05/14/88)
In article <1245@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes: >In article <4513@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ruffwork@CS.ORST.EDU (Ritchey Ruff) writes: >>Has anybody else seen the new IBM commercial with B. Mandelbrot at a screen. > >IBM says that by using fractals, they can create images AS real as Nature. >Well, almost :-). Actually, IBM invented nature, yeah, that's the ticket! >I found the tone of this ad really amusing. I was just waiting for them >to say, "Remember the triangle? That was our's too!" Richard Voss showed these images at ACM'84 and he made a very sigificant aesthetic point about non-naive audiences: real geologists looking at those images don't recognize any familiar rock structures in those mountains. Voss's mountains don't look really natural to professionals. Loren Carpenter may have some similar experiences. In time these people have impressed patterns for the three different rock groups [you know: ingenious, sedentary, and metaphoric] and the types of peaks they form, nor can they be simple alien worlds, take some classes in planetary science or geology. Have fun. Just say no to fractals :: J. Bloomenthal ;-) Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,hao,ihnp4,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."