Fracture and repeat. Fractals, you.

From sleeping under the moon to always on zoom, each generation wails about the complexity of “modern” life and glorifies simple life of the past, the “Good Old Days”.

“Hang on like bionic babe.”(1977 “Bionic Woman” NBC/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Kinda like observations on the developmental phases of a growing child.

Every stage means problems – to which everyone says “Don’t worry. It’s a phase. They’ll grow out of it”.

Neglecting to tell you that each phase brings its’ own set of problems.

(Oh, and you just thought it would be easier when they could walk instead of being carried. Then, ride a bike or skateboard. If only they could drive themselves….)

Hang on. Tighter. It’s fine since you’re riding pillion.(PD/Project Gutenberg/Close of 19th century.)

Cradle to grave, it doesn’t stop. A pattern in repetition.

If that doesn’t fracture your thinking, nothing does.

Know about fractals?

Never ending patterns. Identical on different scales. Repeating over and over like a loop in various sizes.

Not just geometry or math or art or trees with leaves or galaxies or hurricanes or coastlines or blood and lung vascular systems or circadian rhythms or computer graphics….

Fractals permeate the natural world, as well as, the human ones.

“Hang on, woman. You’re mine. They can’t criticize.” (1840-80.Central Asia/ Alexandra  Kun/ USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Since nature is heavy with fractals, could human behavior also be a type of fractal?

Basic child development repeats individual after individual: generation after generation

Rural community turns into town, then city, to metroplex following a pattern

Societies and civilizations rise and fall. Predictably.

“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.” (1880 – Max Beerbohm)

Ah, the joys of a simple life. (Fred, Wilma, Pebbles Flintstone’s happy home at Ankara./Nevit Dilmen/Commons.wikimedia.org)

A frenzy of fractal fever!

Fractal or fractured?

Small fissure in time.

Simply a figment of the imagination.

1913.Simply a happy family.”Ah, my beautiful mansion”(USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

It is what it is, to repeat a thought.

Phil the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.

This post fractured from Larissa Thompson’s take on the Daily Post Photo Challenge “The Future” …so it’s a bit of a fractal or not?

North, South, East, West: happy home is simply best.(Gabriel Sheppard/Commons.wikimedia.org)

Frantic for fractals? Once you see them, the world never looks the same.

• Fresh Polished Fractal Art from MIA WP blogger Buddkat with more here, too.
• 1997 Arthur Clarke documentary. Science fiction meets science fact in this video. “Fractals: the Colors of Infinity”
• “Fractal Geometry” (Oh, it’s much more than math, you mathaphobics) Yale University
• “Fractal” Wikipedia. (Go ahead. Dip a toe in here and be awed)

The simple life forced? Back to basics: veggies in outer space.Happily home at the International Space Station: Anousheh Ansari and plant which happens to show fractals. (NASA/USPD/Commons.wikimedia.org)

 

 

 

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