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Reminds me of some of the posts that got me hooked on reading neatorama every day. I had actually contacted Bathsheba about doing a piece, but it didn't work out.

Bathsheba Sculpture: http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/14/bathsheba-grossmans-sculpture-lamps/

Chaoscope: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/04/26/magnetic-field-by-chaoscope/

Math Cabinet Hardware: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/02/mathematical-drawer-pulls/

Oops, looks like linking back to old neatorama posts triggers moderation.

Sorry about that, OddNumber, got it fixed. The software looks out for multiple links, no matter where they come from.

A very cool post indeed!

Congratulations on an outstanding post!

Reminds me a lot of this post on biology-inspired jewelry I saw a while back. http://www.utne.com/Science-Technology/Jewelry-that-Gets-its-Geek-On-Beautifully.aspx

The longest I had patience to wait for a render was around 90 hours, and this was for a single image, this is why I've never tried animations. And this with already a 4Gb RAM and a Quadcore processor. I can imagine how it was during the 386/486 days and Fractint. Once I did a pretty deep zoom only to find that people were doing zooms way deeper than mine...

One of the things I like the most is to find and read about relations between simmetry, fractals, Fibonacci etc. and things that are part of our lives - living creatures, artworks, buildings, etc even not being a person interested in mathematics at all. That recent story about MRI's of fruits is amazing - who would know that seeds of a watermelon are placed like a spiral?

Why are fractals just so freaking cool?