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Step 2Cut sheet metal to shape
shaping was conducted entirely with handtools, a shear and a nibbler. at least 10 hours and many blisters later the 768 sided outline began to look like a reasonable approximation to an approximation of a fractal.
the thing they don't tell you about fractals is just how sharp and dangerous they are. i mean, you think you have a pretty good grasp of the mathematical analysis but until a piece of metal with a very high perimiter to surface area ratio tears into your flesh, you're really missing intuitive appreciation for objects that lack continuous derivatives almost everywhere.
the thing they don't tell you about fractals is just how sharp and dangerous they are. i mean, you think you have a pretty good grasp of the mathematical analysis but until a piece of metal with a very high perimiter to surface area ratio tears into your flesh, you're really missing intuitive appreciation for objects that lack continuous derivatives almost everywhere.
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Nov 30, 2011. 8:40 PMvarel-bundock
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Best paragraph I've read in a while. Found my way through: http://felixsalmon.tumblr.com/post/13577123646/the-thing-they-dont-tell-you-about-fractals-is
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