A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales. It is ideal for modeling nature: a tree is a branch of a branch of a branch; mountains are peaks within peaks; clouds are puffs of puffs, and so on. But modern computer scientists aren't the only ones to use fractals: Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more.
Pyramids in Sudan - Egypt
Sudan - Gonder (Ethiopia) - Great Zimbabwe
Kerma city (Sudan) - Lunda houses (Congo) - Tigray (Ethiopia)
In the ancient Western Sudan (aka West Africa)- Songhai, Ghana... Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
Another nonlinear additive series in was found in archaeological evidence from north Africa. Badawy (1965) noted what appears to be use of the Fibonacci series in the layout of the temples of ancient Egypt. Using a slightly different approach, I found a visually distinct example of this series in the successive chambers of the temple of Karnak, as shown in figure 7.2a. Figure 7.2b shows how these numbers can be generated using a recursive loop. This formal scaling plan may have been derived from the non-numeric versions of scaling architecture we see throughout Africa.An ancient set of balance weights, apparently used in Egypt, Syria and Palestine circa 1200 B.C.E., also appear to employ the Fibonacci sequence (Petruso 1985).This is a particularly interesting use, since one of the striking mathematical properties of the sequence is that one can create any positive integer through addition of selected members -- a property that makes it ideal for application to balance measurements (Hoggatt 1969 pp 76). There is no evidence that ancient Greek mathematicians knew of the Fibonacci sequence. There was use of the Fibonacci sequence in Minoan design, but Preziosi (1968) cites evidence indicating that this could have been brought from Egypt by Minoan architectural workers employed at Kahun. http://egyptsearchreloaded.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=arch&action=display&thread=178
what we did back then was good but why are we struggling today?
Posted by Brada-Anansi (Member # 16371) on :
Falling behind sometimes happens the pendulum keeps on swinging but there is a need for a new thread on the topic and not make this one into something else maybe you want to kick it off.
Posted by Wally (Member # 2936) on :
Ancient Egyptian cosmogony often used the lotus blossom as an image for the development of the universe. The petals within petals within petals of the lotus represented the cosmos on smaller and smaller scales.
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Fractals in African Culture.
Fractal designs appear frequently in cultural artifacts across the continent of Africa. They are found in textiles, architecture, sculpture, village layout, etc. Continent wide studies conclude that the high frequency of the use of fractals in Africa is by both conscious and unconscious design. The scaling and recursion aspect of fractals are employed by African architects with the interest of creating a focus of mind and spirit.
The first image is of the layout of an individual house. This is the seed shape. The second iteration shows the same configuration of a family compound. The third iteration shows the layout of the entire village made up of several compounds.
Fractal model for Ba-ila village (Zambia)
Fractals in textiles --------------------- African hair braiding ------------------------------------- an Ethiopian Cross - and more African hair braiding. Posted by Wally (Member # 2936) on :
All of the vets here, I am sure, realize that the retards who post here "the lioness, Calabooz', teacher of osool ..." are all ONE individual who fronts for the equally retarded make-believe world of "Mathilda", "Stormfront" and the other deniars of human historical developement...
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Say, say, Didja see where this clown posted an image of a Black man smoking a marijuana joint with a caption that he was smoking crack! Say, if I'm drinking a Sprite, I know it isn't a Pepsi -- so who is the fool; me, who's drinking a Sprite or the person who swears that I was drinking a Pepsi?
This topic is not about what I'm drinking or doing, it's about African pyramids, fractals, architecture...
fool Posted by Wally (Member # 2936) on :
A fractal is a pattern that repeats itself at different scales. It is ideal for modeling nature: a tree is a branch of a branch of a branch; mountains are peaks within peaks; clouds are puffs of puffs, and so on. But modern computer scientists aren't the only ones to use fractals: Africans have been using them for centuries to design textiles, sculptures, architecture, hairstyles and more.
Pyramids in Sudan - Egypt
Sudan - Gonder (Ethiopia) - Great Zimbabwe
Kerma city (Sudan) - Lunda houses (Congo) - Tigray (Ethiopia)
and more African hair braiding.