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Question on fractals

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Guest
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:35 am
Is it customary for a state school to be teaching this type of material
at the sophmore level? Do most engineers make use of this type of
stuff?
 
Roger Bagula
Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:27 am
Guest
Actually they have been aiming to introduce fractals at an introductory
level
in senor advanced mathematics in high school as the methods mostly
calculus free at the begiining levels.
But it isn't supprising that a biology type course would include
them as the modeling of plants as shapes is, now, almost universally
done using fractal L-systems since
the 80's. Leaves, trees , brush etc. are made using fractal turtle/
memory type processes
It is thought that DNA uses an L-system or similar fractal coding system
to store shape data
for development of all kind.
TommyBojangles@gmail.com wrote:

[quote:5d042194af]Is it customary for a state school to be teaching this type of material
at the sophmore level? Do most engineers make use of this type of
stuff?



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