The meaning of patterns is that the information presented to us - TopicsExpress



          

The meaning of patterns is that the information presented to us can be compressed. A random array of letters has no meaning for us, but if they convey a pattern of linguistic representation, we can grasp their information. Because of the symmetries and scaling that occurs in fractals, the human brain doesn’t have to encode all the distinct scales of such complex structures. Mathematical fractals repeat the same shape of different scales. This idea finds an extremely successful application in fractal compression programs for computer graphics. These work ideally to compress natural scenery, animals, human faces, etc., because those obey fractal scaling to a large extent. – Twelve Lectures on Architecture, by Nikos A. Salingaros, page 40 permaculturenews.org/2011/06/17/the-timeless-way-of-building/
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:17:08 +0000

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