(4:50 PM)
"Algorithmic Beauty"
Lindenmayer system - sets of rules used to model growth of plants and to make fractals. The "Game of Life" (aka Cellular Automaton) is one. Fibbonaci numbers can be generated by them. For extreme Lindenmayer System exposure, check out The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, a book on math and drawing plants. This is like that flash Adam made a few years back...
graphical representations of some Lindenmayer systems
via article on Safari's canvas, via a curiousity about making Dashboard widgets. (Mac OS X)
Why do they make this shit seem like fake math in middle & high school? Why are they reluctant to let kids near mathematical notation? (related: why don't they teach middle schoolers programming?)
