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and when you took them off would this be called "a
fractical shoe loosen "? + |
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A pair of Mandelbrot brothel creepers for me. |
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Nice idea - but how long does it take to make the mould for the treads? |
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Love the idea, but [Dub]'s question is priceless. If only I could get my own engineers to think about design for manufacture... |
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"very good grip" - actually, per the gecko's foot, I think you'd have a hard time lifting your feet at all, as it would bond to the floor. |
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Good good stuff, [Dfox]. I wonder if an enormous fractal could be stamped in a huge rubber sheet, then soles cut from this. No two soles would be alike, though all would be similar. If there was someway to generate the fractal directly on the rubber (perhaps diffusing oil on the rubber, or a growing crystal) that would be a magnitude cooler. |
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would the gluey thing get less as it all got smaller? |
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Edit: Ahh, Idea title starting letters, I have every letter but K, Q, and X. Aha! |
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Big fractal, bounding through the snow! |
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"what can this foot print mean?" + |
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Not to be a spoilsport, but wouldn't the finer iterations wear away in minutes, leaving less and less fracticality every day? |
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it takes quite a bit of time to wear through an infinite tread. |
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A shoe print so unique, you could NOTARISE whatever you stepped on. |
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Mandelbrot, the new Paisley for the trendy mathematician. |
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I've always wondered why fractals were said to be infinite in edge length. Has anyone proven that they don't converge to some finite number? |
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Would the infinite edge be infintely hard to clean when you stepped in finite doggy-doo? |
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Just spray it with an infinite amount of water! |
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Wouldn't the "infinite length" in this case be analagous to an infinite geometric sequence, in that it does converge to a number, but never actually reaches it? |
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Depending on which type of fractal you use, the change in edge-length varies. A good example is the sawtooth fractal, which doubles ever iteration. |
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Ahhh, remember Pratchett on 7-league boots, and their proper use? |
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I can see this working down several levels of fractility, but after about ten levels, wouldn't the texture of the rubber soles exceed the fractal pattern? + |
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Thank you, Sparty. Well asked. |
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It would of course. Fractals are only infinite in length conceptually and mathematically. As soon as you introduce them to the real world all that infinite stuff gets ignored by atoms and the like. |
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A friend once claimed that the M25 is a fractal, for although it encloses a finite area (Greater London), it takes a near infinite amount of time to traverse, and must therefore be infinitely long. |
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If you can create an infinite series in reality, please let me know. |
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