Okay, so, since I don't really want to take any moral ground "for" or "against" addiction. I have been doing some more research over the spring break. I have become quite enamored with fractals.
Wikipedia (a highly valued source in the academic world) defines fractals thus:
A fractal is a mathematical set that has a fractal dimension that usually exceeds its topological dimension[1] and may fall between the integers.[2]Fractals are typically self-similar patterns, where self-similar means they are "the same from near as from far".[3] Fractals may be exactly the same at every scale, or, as illustrated in Figure 1, they may be nearly the same at different scales.[2][4][5][6] The definition of fractal goes beyond self-similarity per se to exclude trivial self-similarity and include the idea of a detailed patternrepeating itself
And, this shit doesn't really make much sense, but in reality, a fractal is this infinite structure that is composed of smaller "selfs" infinitely. Thus, the whole universe is composed of fractals. It is the numeric divisibility of the organic world based on mathematics and complex integers. If you still don't get it. This video is a great resource, and is a totally fucking great watch from the 1990's (before you were born).
Okay, Check this video out. Perhaps that will help
If not, then there is also this really long video that discusses in length the ideas of a relationship between equations and the organic. It's really heady and cool stuff. This video is from Arthur Clarke. Skip through it if you like:
But none of this is really necessary unless you are interested in how they were discovered. The truth and uniqueness about the fractal is that it can be changed by applying and filling in different formulas and equations. There are MANY MANY MANY animations that deal with the fractal and most of them apply the formula into an image (the amazing thing about the fractal imagery) and then the animation zooms (seemingly endlessly) into the image that is created from the numeric equation that is generated. Here are some examples of that.
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