From Paul Bourke, the man who invented the technique of spherical mirror projection for hemispherical dome projection.
After seeing a beautiful fractal display in the UNM dome, I've been surfing graphics sites for tutorials. This one has some useful fractal experiments, including one that can be done with four shiny Christmas balls.
And a freeware fractal generator for OS X:
endlos - a multi-threaded fractal generator
Another:
FractalWorks
We're hard-wired for geometry - Science Mysteries - MSNBC.com
No this isn't some New Age nonsense. It's an article in New Scientist about a fractal element to Maya organization. According to the article, "Self-organised critical systems are inherently unpredictable." Another way to look at the Maya collapse.
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New Scientist Archive | Destined for destruction
For Catherine, a program at Cornell that is refurbishing bikes and sending them to Chiapas.
Briefly in Tompkins - ithacajournal.com
For Chris Powell, some famous geometric curves to soothe his soul. Even the names are evocative: the Pearls of de Sluze, the Pear-Shaped Quartic, Freeth's Nephroid.
This by way of Bruce Sterling.