Open To Interpretation
Fractals in Africa
https://csdt.org/culture/africanfractals/architecture.html
14:15(plus or minus) "your own artifacts"
https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_the_fractals_at_the_heart_of_african_designs?language=rm
Met Museum
Notes: Games over: Angels 5, Braves 12; Oakland 0, Dodgers 10 in the seventh...and a final...Angels are gonna have to win two of three or better in upcoming series to have a chance for a wildcard spot...today they fell into fourth place in their division!...there's a big batch of teams competing for the three wild cards, and then there are the top teams, and they are way at the top...same in National League...odd season in that respect...anyway, last post was about Fractal Geometry in Andean art...long ways back in posts I had some on Sacred Geometry in Aztec/Mesoamerican art, and doing searches I keep coming up with the Fractal in Africa, which is really neat...one take had it Fractal Geometry was in Africa, Eucledean Geometry in Greece/Europe, and Four Fold Symmetry in American Southwest....or some such...my notice of the fractal scaling, recursion, in the four corner hat, and the Paracas textiles, was an "aha!"...I've known how Sacred Geometry applies to Ancient Egypt...and the "four fold symmetry" was another way of saying the 'fourness' of art in the America's that I've noted...I mean, they came up with 'Four Corner Hats", for goodness sake...but over in Africa, they designed their villages around fractal scaling...which is kinda unique, or some such...I mean, how'd that happen!?...these searches all stem from the God L's Leg post, noting how the artists are "noting"...it's like the Painting from Santorini, the Mycenean mural of a harbor, and the Palaces brick work, no different than a cinder block wall nowadays...how was that arrived at?...or the all over the place polygonal walls and pavements, how that?...conventions...they all had to start somewhere....when I see pics of the eight mile stretch of rock paintings found in Brazil, I note the conventions...note that many look like sinusoidal waves on an oscilloscope!...one fractal example from Africa is braided hair...tiny braids to begin, to larger and larger...I don't know if conventions are instinctual, that an idea for something just comes to an artist like flying comes to a bird, or what...maybe our instinct for beauty selects for this and that design...pretty things to look at, like flowers...well, flowers have sacred geometry, fractal geometry, about them...so, it's a this or that thing...I dunno!...I've been plugging in "algorithm" into the ancient art look ups...my thought reaction to things is so common place, that it is easy to find others with same thought, question, and usually better said, and developed!...why I quote so often in the blog!...algos select, sift...one Greek Goddess had as an attribute a sieve...threshing grain...neat pic of that...donkey going round and round the threshing floor...grinding away...those familiar with WOW , World of Warcraft, video games, know of grinding...the math formula that makes fractals on the computer is an algorithmic grind!...time was it took days to make one of those Mandelbrot illustrations...(https://www.ted.com/talks/ron_eglash_the_fractals_at_the_heart_of_african_designs?language=rm)...lol...watching this TED talk, I'm saying, "Oh, snap, I just wrote that!" almost two million views, and one wonders if something could drag them over to look, just a little while, at the Nazca four corner hat!...
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