Fractals in African Art and Mathematics It seems that Africans were the ones who first incorporated fractals into their art, culture, and philosophy.
Fractals : are processes or images that exhibit something called self-similarity. For example something that is made up a reduced version of itself.
Theory.org: Complex Systems, Fractals\Dynamics, Geometry\Topology, Art, Software Images of Chaos and Symmetry Kent Palmer: Holonomic Theory of Consciousness Holonomic.info / Archonic.net: Reflexive Autopoietic Systems Theory ...
Consider the concepts of holography, feedback loops, fractals, the broadcast of the electromagnetic spectrum, quantum theory (local and nonlocality), and many other subjects of creative delineation through scientific or deific manifestation.
The common catch-terms that most people have heard by now - strange attractors, fractals, etc, are related to the study of turbulence in nature.
There are other interesting aspects of fractal geometry, the most important of which is perhaps that fractals exhibit self-similarity: no matter how closely you zoom into or away from a fractal shape, it maintains the same structure.
See also: World, Spirit, Mater, Philo, Self
 
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