PDF-(READ)-African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design

Fractals are characterized by the repetition of similar patterns at everdiminishing scales Fractal geometry has emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers on the border between mathematics and information technology and can be seen in many of the swirling patterns produced by computer graphics It has become a new tool for modeling in biology geology and other natural sciences Anthropologists have observed that the patterns produced in different cultures can be characterized by specific design themes In Europe and America we often see cities laid out in a grid pattern of straight streets and rightangle corners In contrast traditional African settlements tend to use fractal structurescircles of circles of circular dwellings rectangular walls enclosing eversmaller rectangles and streets in which broad avenues branch down to tiny footpaths with striking geometric repetition These indigenous fractals are not limited to architecture their recursive patterns echo throughout many disparate African designs and knowledge systems Drawing on interviews with African designers artists and scientists Ron Eglash investigates fractals in African architecture traditional hairstyling textiles sculpture painting carving metalwork religion games practical craft quantitative techniques and symbolic systems He also examines the political and social implications of the existence of African fractal geometry His book makes a unique contribution to the study of mathematics African culture anthropology and computer simulations. Lokeshwarri S.K. April 2011 Fractals is a fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts which are similar i n shape to the whole. On one of those lazy days when you were lying on your back St Paul’s Geometry Masterclass II. Who are we?. Mairi Walker. Final year maths PhD student at The Open University. Studying links between geometry and numbers. A. lso interested in the history of maths. By. Leslie Ryan. Common Terms. Iteration-. To . repeat a pattern multiple times, usually with a series of steps. . Reflection-. An image that is thrown back from light, heat, or sound. Like an image you see in a mirror. . Part 1: In which we attempt to describe what a fractal is, because people will ask (but perhaps they will not really want to know the answer).. Then I introduce the 2. nd. most photogenic fractal of the class, and attempt to convince you it is cool anyways.. Mrs. Ghia Eido . . Salwah AL-. Saddah. . 201100130. . L. avender. . . This . space . will be designed by the lavender flower’s colors which are a combination of purple and light blue; The purpose of choosing this combination is to give a feeling of relaxation, luxury, elegance and romance for people visiting this . SOUTH AFRICAN PARLIAMENT, . CAPE TOWN. THURSDAY, 26 JANUARY, 2017 . .. . Prof . Nomalungelo. . Goduka. , Former IKS Research Chair, Walter . Sisulu. University . Founder and Chairperson of . eZiko. Excerpt from . Book of Roads and Kingdoms. The . city of Ghana consists of two towns situated on a plain. One of these towns, which is inhabited by Muslims, is large and possesses twelve mosques, in one of which they assemble for the Friday prayer.…. CSCE 190: Computing in the Modern World. Jason D. Bakos. Heterogeneous and Reconfigurable Computing Group. Apollo 11 vs iPhone 10. Apollo 11. Cost: ~$200 billion. (whole program, adjusted). Guidance Computer (1966):. Modern Humans is about the most recent--and perhaps the most important--phase of human evolution: the appearance of anatomically modern people (Homo sapiens) in Africa less than a quarter of a million years ago and their subsequent spread throughout the world. Most of the features that render living human beings unique among all forms of life evolved or developed with Homo sapiens, and in Modern Humans, John F. Hoffecker argues that humans represent a major transition in evolution with respect to the storage, transmission, and translation of information, as well as a quantum leap in living-system complexity.Modern Humans synthesizes data from genetics (including the rapidly growing body of ancient DNA), the human fossil record, and archaeology relating to the African origins and global dispersal of anatomically modern people. The book begins by placing humans into the broad context of the evolution of life, emphasizing the fundamental role of genetic and nongenetic forms of information in living systems, and how changes in information are tied to major transitions in evolution. For more than a hundred thousand years, a diverse near modern human population, characterized by the retention of some archaic skeletal traits and possibly lacking the full suite of cognitive faculties found in living people, occupied the African continent and expanded briefly into the adjoining Arabian Peninsula and Levant. The immediate ancestors of all living maternal and paternal lineages possibly emerged from within this population, spreading initially throughout Africa before beginning a second--and ultimately global--dispersal no later than 60,000 years ago. The later chapters of this book recount their rapid expansion into southern Asia and Australia, northern Eurasia and Beringia, and throughout the Americas. 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E) all of the above. 2) genetic variation within modern extant humans indicates. A) that all modern humans have (relatively) recent African ancestry. International Internship University Monthly Conference. by Mammo Muchie, DPhil: DST/NRF Rated Research Professor . Tshwane University of Technology, Adjunct Professor, BDU, UoG & Haramaya University, Ethiopia, and Africa Centre of Excellence...