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  • @besmart
    @besmart  Před měsícem +991

    Fractals are cool.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Před měsícem +105

      Fractals are cool.

    • @saphijau7357
      @saphijau7357 Před měsícem +32

      Fractals are cool.

    • @c.jishnu378
      @c.jishnu378 Před měsícem +9

      Fr.

    • @αβγδε
      @αβγδε Před měsícem +28

      Fun fact: Fractals are being used to create realistic computer-generated landscapes and environments in video games and movies. Their self-similar patterns allow for efficient rendering and an infinite level of detail. They have really cool applications.

    • @akshatrai9007
      @akshatrai9007 Před měsícem +10

      ​@@besmartFractals are cool

  • @αβγδε
    @αβγδε Před měsícem +1426

    Fun fact: Fractals are sometimes used to create realistic computer-generated landscapes and environments in video games and movies. Their self-similar patterns allow for efficient rendering and an infinite level of detail. They have really cool applications.
    Also in future, fractals may be used to improve cooling systems. As they provide infinite surface area in minimum volume, they can theoretically maximise the efficiency of transfer of heat.

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Před měsícem +14

      Zelda trees

    • @maillardsbearcat
      @maillardsbearcat Před měsícem +10

      We know

    • @mlphyzix
      @mlphyzix Před měsícem +3

      Check out L-systems!
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Před měsícem +35

      In real life, the phrase "repeated branching" is better, it's more accurate to the non-infinite nature of things(and the impossibility of a literal mathematical fractal).

    • @JoeBeaudette
      @JoeBeaudette Před měsícem +4

      Did somebody say Minecraft?

  • @mr.least19
    @mr.least19 Před měsícem +382

    Unbelievable. I noticed this exact thing as a child, without a clue about fractals. My veins, lightning, and trees.

    • @zara__xd
      @zara__xd Před měsícem +4

      That’s called Fitrah

    • @mohammadmohd113
      @mohammadmohd113 Před měsícem +3

      @@zara__xd i was about to comment "fitrah" haha

    • @TheResistance000
      @TheResistance000 Před měsícem +5

      @@zara__xdcould you expand on the meaning? I googled it and I can see what the definitions are trying to say but I feel like there’s more to it that I’m not understanding.

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 Před měsícem

      X ZZ 8

    • @mohammadmohd113
      @mohammadmohd113 Před měsícem

      @@TheResistance000 Fitrah is a feature or part of the human soul that predisposes every human to instinctively intuit a higher power (God) from the moment they are born, and this intuition can either be subdued or fostered based on a child's upbringing (i.e., how they are raised). This higher power is all-powerful, all-knowing, the most just, the most beautiful, the most subtle, the all-calculating, etc., and has created time and space in a way that reflects His attributes. Just like when a certain carpenter or artist has a signature style, the "style" of God's creation reflects His attributes.
      So the TL;DR of why i wanted to comment fitrah is that, for Muslims, there is nothing in creation that is the way it is by accident. So when our lungs take in CO2 and produce O2 and water, and trees do the exact opposite, and they both look similar (aka the "fractal" thing in this video), they have been designed that way on purpose. And children, who have a very strong "fitrah"-an innate sense that "the sky looks beautiful because God made it" or "that leaf looks like a bee's wing, and a tree's branches, and lightning. that's so cool that they were all made like that"-are more likely to look at things like fractals and see them as signs pointing to their origin (being created by God to specifically look that way).
      I ranted a bit, but I hope that helps somewhat!

  • @phillydragonfly
    @phillydragonfly Před měsícem +515

    Our exterior anatomy is fractal, too. Our arms and legs branch out from our trunk, which then branches out into fingers.

    • @siquod
      @siquod Před měsícem +85

      And then the little tentacles on the fingertips!
      Wait, you have those, right?

    • @Shaunshahriar
      @Shaunshahriar Před měsícem +60

      @@siquod and the antennas on those tentacles. wait am i in the wrong dimention again dammit

    • @hanaisnoya
      @hanaisnoya Před měsícem +4

      🤯🤯

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 Před měsícem

      X ZZ 8

    • @ans88682
      @ans88682 Před 29 dny +12

      I think that's a "stretch" ... I'll see myself out.

  • @naveengautam9662
    @naveengautam9662 Před měsícem +725

    My brain has formed fractal memories to efficiently learn about fractals.

    • @metasamsara
      @metasamsara Před měsícem +18

      study supersymmetry and apply that understanding to your own cognition, thank me in a decade or two when you start mastering what it truly means.... hint: buddhist monks have figured it out for centuries through buddhist cosmology.

    • @αβγδε
      @αβγδε Před měsícem +11

      @@metasamsara How do you apply supersymmetry to your own cognition? As far as I know, it is related to quantum mechanics.

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Před měsícem

      @@metasamsara Most physicists don't even agree with SUSY, and there is no supporting evidence. In addition, multiple experiments failed to show that SUSY is true, also the Buddhists didn't know about fermion-boson spin correspondence theories, no one even knew anything about particle spin untill 1922, and was only understood later. Not to mention almost all of the things the theory claims to be linked didn't exist(bose-einstein and fermi-dirac statistics etc).

    • @metasamsara
      @metasamsara Před měsícem +21

      @@αβγδε nothing exists without its opposite, push, pull, left, right, up, down, front, back, relax, stress, etc, etc. valid for emotions and for nerve control and for thinking about physics in vectors☯ valid for conflict resolution, for power balance, for physical impacts, for gravity, for magnetism, for oh so many things. in fact, for everything that exists. To manifest you must define, to define you must exclude the rest. to exclude the rest you have to acknowledge it. light doesn't exist without darkness. Everything is like that, and supersymmetry works as a philosophy just as well as to explain quantum entanglement. and quantum mechanics are just what we call science that is ahead of the outdated theory of general relativity. everything is quantum. at every scale, in every context, of every substance or idea, all is quantum. quantum is the inability to simplify in order to explain. quantum is real time physics obeying supersymmetry and regulated by entropy.

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Před měsícem +3

      ​@@metasamsaraYou cool if I copy this into a journal?

  • @AceSpadeThePikachu
    @AceSpadeThePikachu Před měsícem +580

    You know what else we see a lot in nature, especially on large scales? Spheres. Because a sphere is in every way the exact opposite of a fractal; the maximum amount of volume packed into the smallest surface area. All planets and stars are roughly spherical because no one point on the surface of a sphere is further from the center than any other point, so it's the most stable shape for something with a lot of gravity. Likewise, bubbles and water droplets are round because they have a surface tension that wants to hold the finite amount of material as close to itself as possible.

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Před měsícem +17

      Well said!

    • @taher67
      @taher67 Před měsícem +89

      Like spheres are holding everything in it (surface tension) while fractals are letting go, to gain bigger surface area. Which also reminds me of ying and yang.

    • @carlosdoerner
      @carlosdoerner Před měsícem +34

      That's poetic!
      And to think that both opposites in that sense, fractals and spheres, have the same fundamental origin: Energy minimization.

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Před měsícem +35

      @@carlosdoerner Fractals to collect, spheres to hold, both with minimal energy cost.

    • @Alannachristin
      @Alannachristin Před měsícem

      @@carlosdoerner🤯

  • @markzambelli
    @markzambelli Před měsícem +161

    A good analogy for Fractional Dimensionality is to crumple up a sheet of paper into a ball... the 3D ball is comprised of a 2D sheet with air gaps... it's 'D' lies somewhere between 2 and 3.
    Self similarity is awesome... take a rough looking stone and hold it up infront of a far-off mountain and close one eye and their similarity is remarkable.

    • @besmart
      @besmart  Před měsícem +27

      Good analogy!

    • @TTV_UNIFIED_8
      @TTV_UNIFIED_8 Před měsícem

      X ZZ 8

    • @JC-justchillin
      @JC-justchillin Před 25 dny +1

      But is the sheet really 2-D?

    • @normalguy246
      @normalguy246 Před 2 dny +1

      my brain is vomiting, thank you 🙏🏾

    • @markzambelli
      @markzambelli Před 2 dny

      @@JC-justchillin Technically, because of the 3d nature of the universe, absolutely not... but it's perfect for showing the concept.

  • @Alasdair37448
    @Alasdair37448 Před měsícem +49

    The fact nature always comes up with the most ingenious solutions to problems is truly astounding. It feels me with a sense of wonder and awe.

    • @moonhajung6742
      @moonhajung6742 Před 26 dny +3

      hence more of them applied into modern human life through biomimicry, now! 🥺💚

    • @ronniechilds2002
      @ronniechilds2002 Před 17 dny +3

      Same here. Some of the simplest, most common-place things in nature can be literally awe-inspiring when you think about them a certain way.

    • @animaticToshiue
      @animaticToshiue Před 16 dny +7

      cause nature is not just accident

    • @gabrielgiorgio-dormon8495
      @gabrielgiorgio-dormon8495 Před 11 dny +2

      It’s kinda funny how people denounce God but apply some of his attributes to nature being like ohhhh nature did this 🤡 mf who is nature 🤡

  • @davideverling753
    @davideverling753 Před měsícem +414

    man the Benoit B.(Benoit B.(…) Mandelbrot)Mandelbrot joke is phenomenal

    • @somerndmguy
      @somerndmguy Před měsícem +19

      I legitimately did a golf clap at that one.

    • @alecsyogacorner
      @alecsyogacorner Před měsícem +33

      agreed, immediately texted four of my nerdiest friends and begged them to text the same joke to their four nerdiest friends. and so on

    • @shivasimashau5750
      @shivasimashau5750 Před měsícem +4

      That slapped hard 😂

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Před měsícem +3

      @@alecsyogacorner 😂😂😂😂

    • @MarkoMood
      @MarkoMood Před měsícem +2

      ​@@alecsyogacorner Friends?

  • @mr.giggles4995
    @mr.giggles4995 Před měsícem +41

    I first noticed fractals when I took psilocybin mushrooms when I was younger, they were popping out everywhere. I've been obsessed ever since.

    • @TheResistance000
      @TheResistance000 Před měsícem +5

      I noticed them just naturally when I was younger. I then tried mushrooms and it just enhanced it and I’ve been obsessed with these curious observations as well as others. Just opens up many more questions…

  • @davideverling753
    @davideverling753 Před měsícem +262

    given that it neatly explains nearly all of these natural fractals, it seems odd to not talk about the fact that they all just follow the path of least resistance? as a kid i remember that the term “path of least resistance” allowed me to actually understand fractals in our world unlike explanations that just said that these systems somehow prefer maximum efficiency

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Před měsícem +59

      That's really interesting. That could be
      "path of least resistance = preference of maximum efficiency".
      Maybe just a linguistic trick, but, we process things through our own filters. Thanks!

    • @azilbean
      @azilbean Před měsícem +16

      And least competition

    • @peglor
      @peglor Před měsícem +24

      Constructal Theory is a branch of engineering that does this. The idea is to mathematically play off two competing requirements in a system to find the optimum solution. The cost to make more wood in a tree is played off against the increase in leaf surface area for example. Where it gets really interesting is that it can also be used to predict the transition of a flow to turbulence, based on energy minimisation, without any need to model the fluid in detail at all.
      Any system with 2 ways of achieving some requirement, one being quick but expensive and the other being slow but cheap can be modeled this way. A classic example is heat sinking, where for example expensive but more conductive copper and cheaper but less conductive aluminium are used together. The optimum solution creates branched geometries without any guidance but the properties of the materials.

    • @genesises
      @genesises Před měsícem +11

      that's basically what he said but he used the word efficiency, because it has to be efficient too in order to last, not just the easiest path. as someone else said, mostly a linguistic detail.

    • @Sammysapphira
      @Sammysapphira Před měsícem +11

      ​@genesises it's a linguistic detail that matters because it implies different concepts. Saying something "makes it's self the most efficient" makes it seem like it is self governing, conscious, or something is instructing it. In reality, it simply grows towards the path that is easiest to travel. Much like a river travelling down a valley.

  • @Aliessil
    @Aliessil Před měsícem +95

    Chaos Theory (the mathematics behind fractals) was my favourite module at university, and I've loved fractals ever since. That was over 30 years ago!

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Před měsícem +2

      chaos is a concept with no relation to reality because 'order' and 'chaos' are just concepts in a relative universe

    • @joseville
      @joseville Před měsícem +15

      @@Purwapada chaos theory has real world applications though. it describes systems that are very sensitive to initial conditions like the weather, double pendulums, and many others. In fact, it was developed by meteorologist/mathematician Edward Lorenz.

    • @wooyoungsdoormat3853
      @wooyoungsdoormat3853 Před měsícem +3

      @@joseville im writing my thesis about this rn :D

    • @Qubitized
      @Qubitized Před měsícem +4

      Can we relate this phenomenon of fractals in nature to entropy?

    • @JohannaKing254
      @JohannaKing254 Před měsícem +1

      Unbelievable. I noticed this exact thing as a child, without a clue about fractals. My veins, lightning, and trees.

  • @christupper0
    @christupper0 Před měsícem +135

    Even the fungal network on the bark follows the same patterns 🍄

  • @munchkenzie
    @munchkenzie Před měsícem +45

    I've always wondered why asphalt roads crack in the branching shape. I didn't start this video expecting an answer to that question but I'm so pleased I got one!

    • @lukeanthony2279
      @lukeanthony2279 Před 20 dny +2

      And hitting a window just hard enough for it to spiderweb i now realize its energy that the glass took in 😊😊😊

  • @mutanix
    @mutanix Před měsícem +128

    My power flurries through the air into the ground
    My souls is spiraling in frozen fractals all around...

  • @_Geist
    @_Geist Před měsícem +33

    this video scratches an itch that my brain has had for 30 years. thank you. :)

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před měsícem +227

    That's why they call me "ol' Lightning Veins"

    • @ImaDogDude
      @ImaDogDude Před měsícem +14

      Same here, accept its because i have a rare blood condition where my vessels burn internally. People say it looks like i got struck by lightning when it flares up 🤣😂😂😂😂
      All jokes btw lmao

    • @targuscinco
      @targuscinco Před měsícem +5

      People call me a schmuck. 😢

    • @TitularHeroine
      @TitularHeroine Před měsícem +3

      Some people call me Maurice.

    • @ImaDogDude
      @ImaDogDude Před měsícem +6

      @@TitularHeroine Cause you speak of the pompatus of love?

    • @rtbeerzi
      @rtbeerzi Před měsícem +2

      what

  • @geneseenelson36
    @geneseenelson36 Před měsícem +14

    I wrote my senior paper on fractals in nature. I love them!! It feels like you can find fractal dimensions everywhere, like country borders, lightning, and veins in leaves. They really the coolest thing possible.

  • @KierraKoeber
    @KierraKoeber Před měsícem +23

    I remember looking at a tree once and seeing the dendritic pattern and thinking if the whole thing were visible it’d probably look a lot like a neuron, then I read a bit about power laws but since I don’t know physics this video really summed it up for me pretty eloquently. Now I’ve just gotta know why different plants take on different leaf patterns!

    • @cryptidofthemarshes1680
      @cryptidofthemarshes1680 Před měsícem +5

      I have trees in my brain

    • @Dovahkiin0117
      @Dovahkiin0117 Před měsícem +2

      @@cryptidofthemarshes1680
      Brain is trees
      😂

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Před měsícem +1

      My WAGuess is that when you look at something like how it competes against other plants/animals, and other details about how it takes in nutrients, from what heights its competeing to be optimal, and things like how much energy it takes to move the leaves, the answer will start to show up a bit.
      So, in those particular cases, its patterns are more optimal than other plants that its competing with

  • @thebrainy
    @thebrainy Před měsícem +35

    Next Video idea:
    Why some fruits,nuts and vegetables have similarities with our body organs, and eating them help the same organ they look like.👀

  • @T1cksandLeeches
    @T1cksandLeeches Před měsícem +10

    1:18 Stared at the same tree for 4 hours pondering every imaginable question possible after a handful of psily mushrooms....so yeah I would say I have lol

  • @karenmorgan4613
    @karenmorgan4613 Před měsícem +12

    What an amazing Creator we have!

  • @iamthethis
    @iamthethis Před měsícem +12

    Fractals are the natural method of energetic sophistication in the Universe, and they all serve the same purpose and rule:
    To expose itself through contrast, as without contrast, there is no progression.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Před měsícem

      I mean, yes, energy gradients are the source of all things happening in the universe, but what the hell is "fractals are the natural method of energetic sophistication in the universe" supposed to mean?

    • @iamthethis
      @iamthethis Před 29 dny +1

      @@NeovanGoth Fractals could be considered one of the most basic languages in the Universe, like binary code, it can infinity articulate itself on the micro and macro level in order to communicate information.

  • @abstract5249
    @abstract5249 Před měsícem +6

    Today I learned there are dimensions in between whole number dimensions. I also learned that what we call "trees" can sometimes be more related to other plants that we don't call trees. Finally, I learned that you can increase the surface area of a shape by making fractals of that shape.
    Thanks for the lesson!

  • @goldensunrayspone
    @goldensunrayspone Před měsícem +43

    space filling fractals are really useful in nature

  • @robschn
    @robschn Před měsícem +26

    Love that you concluded with the word “systems”. My friend is in data analytics and he calls these “non-linear dynamic systems” and they show up absolutely everywhere there are healthy systems

  • @grasshoppergeography
    @grasshoppergeography Před měsícem +4

    Finally a video we can use when people compare our river basin maps to blood vessels or a cabbage :) Great work, and thanks for featuring our work!

  • @raduciobanu4592
    @raduciobanu4592 Před měsícem +7

    I have been looking for this answer my whole life.

  • @philosophusbellator
    @philosophusbellator Před měsícem +14

    This has always fascinated me. Thank you for expanding and clarifying it! It took me a couple seconds to get the Mandelbrot middle initial joke, but yeah, I laughed.

  • @MercedesCruz-qe1nj
    @MercedesCruz-qe1nj Před měsícem +2

    I do not understand the mathematical facts about fractals, but I have always been fascinated by their beauty. Trees, rivers, the human body. We are all reflections of each other.

  • @YT-jg3kz
    @YT-jg3kz Před měsícem +9

    I remember my math professor went into a side rant about this on the whiteboard and left the whole class confused.

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Před měsícem +1

      Thats unfortunate. Sounds like if they couldve done it with a bit more prep, that it wouldve made for a very interesting lecture.
      Its always great when peoples interests match what theyre teaching

  • @KwakWack
    @KwakWack Před měsícem +5

    Honestly I think this channel is by far my favorite science channel on CZcams

  • @TitularHeroine
    @TitularHeroine Před měsícem +10

    Okay so that joke is actually really good. 😂😂 Took me a minute....
    I've been left with more questions -- and that's so cool. Thank you, Joe!

  • @catherinethomas3130
    @catherinethomas3130 Před měsícem +9

    Joe, I love your videos. You make the info so entertaining. Thanks you for that.

  • @packajenyou
    @packajenyou Před měsícem +5

    Awe❤ When I was little I called broccoli "Baby Trees"

  • @ryanpowell4338
    @ryanpowell4338 Před měsícem +3

    They should mention how fractals are a large part of the psychedelic experience and are produced by nature. The trips often come with a sense of not being confined by our three dimensions and have been displayed in art around the world for ages

  • @HawthorneHillNaturePreserve
    @HawthorneHillNaturePreserve Před měsícem +8

    I’m surprised you didn’t spend more time discussing the mathematics behind fractals to include the golden number and spirals. Also, I think it’s false physics doesn’t play a part in these designs because everything is influenced by gravity, and the laws of physics and nature that help dictate the design of our existence based on our needs to survive. Things like evolution, time, and the need for efficiency as you said, play major roles as well. P.S. Love your work 🙏

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Před měsícem +2

      there are no laws of physics. just observed regularities, which can only be understood as regular by comparing them to something else regular. Which is a fallacy and collapses in the face of induction

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Před měsícem +1

      @@Purwapada something defines our universe. Physics exist. and our understanding of it is relative. That is all. The physics of the universe is very real. Dont get carried away with 'nothing has any meaning' level philosophy ...

    • @Purwapada
      @Purwapada Před měsícem

      @@andrew5744 physics does not exist, it is the logical application of a conceptual framework. Based in the supposition that phenomena have a true existence.
      Why? Because, an existent is not born of an existent (because it already exists), an existent is not born of a non existent, a non existent does not come from an existent, and a non existent cannot come from an already non existent.
      As such there can be no arising of a true existent.

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Před měsícem

      @@Purwapada again ur getting carried away with philosophical mumbo jumbo. mathematics exist as if I have one of this and I have one of this, I now have 2. Mathematics exists in our universe. If I walk off a building on earth, I fall because of gravity. That is physics existing. Our gravity is a constant rate of acceleration pulling downwards which is why we walk on the ground. Consistent Forces act upon us. And We apply force to move. That is physics. Not in any way saying our physics are 100% correct. But physics and mathematics exists one way or another regardless of what philosophy u attempt to bring to the table. We presently live in this reality that has an existing system of math and physics.

    • @andrew5744
      @andrew5744 Před měsícem

      @@Purwapada one very philosophical person could of course say physics doesn’t exist, time doesn’t exist, math doesn’t exist, and plague everyone with unhelpful questions like well how do we know anything exists? But the fact of the matter is you exist. So you must acknowledge what you exist with currently. If you want to say u don’t exist. Be my guest. Don’t go around talking it’s fact tho. Kinda like genders. U wanna identify as something. Go for it. Think what u want, but don’t push that bs depressing mindset upon others who can acknowledge we live in this reality, whether or not it’s a dream and we’re in a coma or we’re a simulation, we are here… so how could u sanely try to implement that as the norm upon others. U say “physics doesn’t exist” like it’s fact. No, that’s your philosophical rabbit hole. Like the piers Morgan clip where the dude is telling Morgan that he is a cisgendered male when no, the world doesn’t run off of your individual phrases you’re attempting to make up, Morgan identifies as a male period which was his point. We all have our own interpretations of reality. And I, as well as many others can appreciate this vast system of math and science that dictates our universe. To say physics doesn’t exist is to do deny said “framework.” Yes physics and time and math are man made concepts to understand the framework. If we didn’t call time anything. Time still ticks and goes on. But we do have our way of understanding said framework by calling it time. So time does exist. To an alien civilization they could call this framework we call time zoobadoobah. And zoobadoobah would exist because it’s their way of understanding and describing the existing framework. The “framework” exists and thus our way of interpretation which is physics, time, math exists, whatever argument u wanna get into.
      This is like a caveman argument. It’s like oh, well friction with this wood and oxygen creates this warm bright source that emerges and that potential exists regardless of if they had words for it or not when cavemen discovered what we know as fire. But obviously to advance as humans, they did create words for it in their native languages. “Man make fire” so they call it fire. Thus Fire exists. And man also exists. You’re literally arguing about concepts not existing when concepts are just describing what exists. Cuz even if fire wasn’t called fire. What we know as fire still exists.

  • @dorolicious
    @dorolicious Před 5 dny

    What I find fascinating is that no tree is exactly the same, but still look familiar, because they grow the same type of fractals. No matter how different every single tree is, we still see what kind of tree it is. Simple but amazing.

  • @josepheridu3322
    @josepheridu3322 Před měsícem +3

    Fractals are so efficient and yet humans still prefer grids and squares :(

  • @danbarbier
    @danbarbier Před měsícem +1

    Thanks for your video! I met fractals in an event of the UBA in Buenos Aires. 5 People explaines their work investigating practical uses of fractals. Came out amazed. I have never forgotten that sensation.

  • @JackieChandler69
    @JackieChandler69 Před měsícem +21

    Love the aspen tree reference.

  • @ItsG07
    @ItsG07 Před 9 dny

    I’ve been waiting far too long to feel validated in my obsession with fractal patterns. Thank you

  • @tonestar_
    @tonestar_ Před měsícem +6

    As a game developer, paying attention to this is how im able to create more realistic looking landscapes.

    • @marcsh_dev
      @marcsh_dev Před měsícem

      With landscapes, when reality breaks away from self similarity is also super interesting. Kenton Musgrave talked about that in Texturing and Modelling (I believe it was)
      Then of course, mixing the 2 to get really great stuff is so much fun.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Před měsícem +1

      Wait until you discover Perlin noise. ;)

    • @warriorofthelord4142
      @warriorofthelord4142 Před 18 dny

      We are indeed made in His image

  • @nicolerogowski2688
    @nicolerogowski2688 Před měsícem +2

    I'm a bioinformatician using fractals specifically to study viral evolution. Fractals are a really interesting way to study genetic information because by representing the information as a fractal - somehow you include information about the DNA sequence's physical structure! It's really exciting to work on it since little is understood, but I'll be doing my best to push my field forward! So that statement about "no gene causing fractal growth" might still turn out to be false!

  • @joymaphanga1786
    @joymaphanga1786 Před měsícem +36

    The Awe of Gods creation 🙌🏽❤️

  • @lisanorwoodtreefarm
    @lisanorwoodtreefarm Před měsícem +1

    An episode on tree roots would be good! (They don't actually look like a mirror of the tree crown. They are pretty much in the top 3ish feet of soil and spread out like a plate. Even in "taproot" species)

  • @Scarlett767j66
    @Scarlett767j66 Před měsícem +5

    I saw this really cool fractal while making a blended coffee running down the side of the cup. It was running like perfect branches/ snowflake style going down on the cup. Looked so COOL

  • @zon6939
    @zon6939 Před měsícem +2

    I need a “I ❤️ fractals” shirt

  • @decoy3540
    @decoy3540 Před měsícem +3

    I saw somehwere that trees roots don't actually grow like what most people have been lead to believe, they grow a lot more horizontal than vertical

    • @flamencoprof
      @flamencoprof Před měsícem +4

      I think that is very dependent on the species. Some are evolved to create a shallow communal "root mat", but some depend on "tap roots" to dig deep for water.

  • @victorpetrenko2736
    @victorpetrenko2736 Před měsícem +1

    Clear explanations what are fractals. THANK YOU !

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis Před měsícem +2

    Aww dang, I’d been chatting to Matt Parker about doing a collab on this exact topic. Awesome job!

  • @radiantmarshmallow2527
    @radiantmarshmallow2527 Před měsícem +1

    Those "rules" are the force of consciousness, a field of directions, like an instruction manual! It's so beautiful.

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Před měsícem +1

      These words have no meaning.

  • @kyle333halfevil
    @kyle333halfevil Před měsícem +3

    Your videos always leave me feeling inspired. Just wanted to say that.

  • @thelifeofdavidq2613
    @thelifeofdavidq2613 Před 22 dny

    I wish this man was my science teacher back in hs. I’ve learned so much in a few minutes and was hooked on watching. Great job PBS 🎉

  • @joyl7842
    @joyl7842 Před měsícem +2

    What fascinates me is that the big tree in my parents' backyard survived a lightning strike but only half of it did. The other half is clearly dead and it is a split right down the middle. It isn't obvious from looking at it that lightning did it, but I was watching the storm from my bedroom when the lightning strike hit. It shook my windows it was so loud. How does a tree survive that amount of energy?
    And related, why do people get those fractal-shapes when receiving strong electric shocks?

  • @ivypanda3594
    @ivypanda3594 Před 17 dny

    I love fractsls, drawing trees and seing them everywhere is beautiful

  • @uasserkamal2002
    @uasserkamal2002 Před měsícem +3

    A more than wonderful episode, but it must be pointed out that living and non-living systems do not have any free will, but rather natural fractal patterns are subject to physical laws and principles purely without any intention, and this is what drives us to understand the nature of...

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Před měsícem

      This is true. You baiting?

    • @uasserkamal2002
      @uasserkamal2002 Před měsícem +1

      @@borttorbbq2556 what is the meaning of "baiting"?

    • @spoperty4940
      @spoperty4940 Před měsícem

      Emergence can explain free-will and intention, we can't explain emergence using only the scientific fact of uncontrollably(regardless of the deterministically vs. randomality of quantum mechanics)

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Před měsícem

      @@uasserkamal2002 Basically, you say something you know will piss people to get people to reply. It kinda forces interactions. I do it often. In this case you're saying the quiet part.

    • @borttorbbq2556
      @borttorbbq2556 Před měsícem

      @@spoperty4940 hmmm explain that to the experiments involving this. Your brain makes the decision even if "you" are thinking it over.

  • @user-bh1fo2wg1g
    @user-bh1fo2wg1g Před 21 dnem +1

    Conversations are also like branches/ fractals, they branch off into unexpected directions

  • @keller109
    @keller109 Před měsícem +7

    Everything is connected 🌳

  • @edikind3347
    @edikind3347 Před měsícem +1

    Transportation infrastructure also has fractal branching, from the smallest dirt roads across a farm to the largest highways across a continent.

  • @Fireheart318
    @Fireheart318 Před měsícem +67

    Wanna know something freaky? Your hands are fractals. Each of your fingers is just a tiny arm where the outermost knuckle is a wrist, the middle an elbow, and the innermost a shoulder

    • @ekitorfreire
      @ekitorfreire Před měsícem +13

      I can’t unsee it now…

    • @vibrationalcurrency
      @vibrationalcurrency Před měsícem

      Oh man

    • @NightmareCourtPictures
      @NightmareCourtPictures Před měsícem +1

      Mind blown.

    • @ekitorfreire
      @ekitorfreire Před měsícem +6

      it made me think that the human body itself looks like a weird stylized hand too, like a biped like seastar

    • @NeovanGoth
      @NeovanGoth Před měsícem

      That scene in Ghost und the Shell where tiny mechanical fingers come out of a hacker's fingers. :D

  • @71tamas
    @71tamas Před měsícem +2

    Awesome vid! Fractals could be found in man-made architectures - road network, telecom network, social network etc.

  • @mubarak-abdullah-8771
    @mubarak-abdullah-8771 Před 20 dny +7

    You call them fractals...and i called it the Signature and evidences of the divine being

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo Před měsícem +2

    I noticed in Google Maps, the distribution of small towns and the roads connecting them looks just like neurons.
    Especially in areas towns are 5 miles apart or so to allow people to walk between towns before cars. If you find a place without a lot of other clutter like forests, you can see it very clearly.

  • @PoffoBS
    @PoffoBS Před měsícem +2

    Anyone interested in fractal branching patterns and how they relate to flow systems might benefit from checking out the book Design In Nature by Adrian Bejan.

  • @cosalidra759
    @cosalidra759 Před měsícem +1

    The world will be a better place when the top trending YT videos everywhere will be premium science videos like this one. ( Also when scientists are mainstream celebrities ; not actors, not influencers )

  • @jer103
    @jer103 Před měsícem +4

    Have you ever heard: as above, so below? It just says that certain things mirror themselves.

  • @dany_fg
    @dany_fg Před měsícem +2

    5:54
    It was probably easier to evolve that pattern (grow, split repeat) that to have gigantic leaves and branches (if a herbivore eats it's base you have to regrow the hole thing).

  • @wildwitchwest
    @wildwitchwest Před měsícem +21

    life is a doctor who episode, that's why

  • @seanbeukman9563
    @seanbeukman9563 Před měsícem

    I truly cannot believe that your video is titled like this. I taught a class of drawing to my students. We were drawing plants and I mentioned how similar blood vessels look to branches. Then this week I looked at the trees here in winter and thought abt how amazing it is. Seeing as trees are like lungs. Now I see this video. Its not the algorythm for once. Radical coincidence. Tx.

  • @TheOicyu812
    @TheOicyu812 Před měsícem +4

    PBS / Nova - Fractals: (Hunting the Hidden Dimension) czcams.com/video/qABFYiYqXSU/video.html

  • @HERO-gh9xf
    @HERO-gh9xf Před měsícem +1

    Has always, I always think this topic won’t interest me and then I’m hooked for an another episode

  • @GoldenSun3DS
    @GoldenSun3DS Před měsícem +32

    I miss when the channel was named "It's Okay To Be Smart". I dislike the simplification of names and app icons that's been trending.

    • @Moonsong227
      @Moonsong227 Před měsícem +6

      This and the clikcbaity titles on this one and related channels lately. I get its for the algorithm, but still.

    • @rebeccarakuza2845
      @rebeccarakuza2845 Před měsícem

      And the hello smart people...😢

  • @enikyne
    @enikyne Před měsícem +12

    We have designer, a creator. God created everything as His masterpiece.

  • @bradleyroissetter6796
    @bradleyroissetter6796 Před měsícem +2

    Amazing video. Wish you mentioned human greated ones. Like the electoral grid or mainly the road system. Going from motorway to main road to street road. I use this to great effect in city building games

  • @laurenpatricia411
    @laurenpatricia411 Před měsícem +17

    God is amazing.

  • @absolvt_
    @absolvt_ Před 23 dny

    We need more fractal studies. Fractal operations hold the key to a new way of energy development

  • @Ana_crusis
    @Ana_crusis Před měsícem +5

    The underground part of a tree doesn't look like the top part. They used to think it did but now they know the Roots spread out and remain relatively near the surface .

    • @BackYardScience2000
      @BackYardScience2000 Před měsícem +5

      Depends on the species. A lot of desert plants have roots systems that are way bigger than their part above the ground and vice versa for a lot of tropical species. But I agree, you can't generalize them as such, but that's exactly the same for your comment as well. 🙂

    • @genesises
      @genesises Před měsícem +2

      the point made isn't that they look identical - noone "used to think this". you'd be pretty special to believe there were branches and leaves identical, but underground - and maybe equally special to make this into some kind of argument lol.
      the point is that the fractal pattern is the same.

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis Před měsícem

      @@BackYardScience2000 well yes but, obviously, here he is referring to averagw trees in fairly 'normal' temperate environments. The kind of trees you see around your house when you go outside. I don't think he is referring to any exotic desert growing plants.

    • @Ana_crusis
      @Ana_crusis Před měsícem

      ​@@genesiseswww.yourleaf.org/blog/brenna-anstett/sep-18-2014/mythbusters-getting-root-it

  • @Elev8.5280
    @Elev8.5280 Před 25 dny

    Love this! Thanks so much! Once you see fractals they find you in everything, they cannot be unseen in my life. Great video 😊🪷🌾🕊🏝🌲🌳

  • @Angiepookiebear
    @Angiepookiebear Před měsícem +3

    God is good ❤

  • @gdechandanatha
    @gdechandanatha Před 22 dny

    i love it when nature min-max things with geometry like with hexagons and fractals

  • @M_Speaks
    @M_Speaks Před 19 dny +7

    Fun fact God created everything..

  • @zacharydefeciani7890
    @zacharydefeciani7890 Před měsícem +2

    Once I got really high and said "trees are reverse lightning" and I've thought about it every day since

  • @trungduongduong1424
    @trungduongduong1424 Před měsícem +1

    Thank you! Now I sleep while seeing fractals haunting my dreams because of my ceilings.

  • @LambdaCreates
    @LambdaCreates Před měsícem +2

    NEW BE SMART VIDEO DROPPED THIS BOUTTA BE FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @cyberqueen777
    @cyberqueen777 Před 26 dny

    What a good speaker you are! My first time at your channel - you're a natural in front of the camera.

  • @shreerachitasatish7844

    this is the coolest video I have ever watched in my entire life

  • @Shrevaba
    @Shrevaba Před 17 dny

    I looked just in time to catch the neature walk reference. how neat!

  • @ckq
    @ckq Před měsícem +1

    As a math guy u were tickling my brain in the middle 3rd of the video.
    Essentially we're trying to maximize surface area to volume without over/under commiting resources.
    In a sense they're anti-bubbles (or balloons in the context of lungs, blood)

  • @ceenote6364
    @ceenote6364 Před měsícem

    Definitely cool how the inside of certain fruits and things looks like the magnetic field. Amazing how nature forms its masterpiece’s .

  • @BillThedem
    @BillThedem Před měsícem +1

    Fun fact: trees root systems mostly don’t mirror the tree, instead they branch just a few feet down far shallower than we were all taught

  • @mydogisbailey
    @mydogisbailey Před měsícem +1

    Joe’s hair be looking HELLA fresh my man

  • @avoxh
    @avoxh Před měsícem +1

    i love your videos. you cover so many random topics which all are so damn interesting. you really feed my inner nerd so much interesting information.

  • @ChristianJiang
    @ChristianJiang Před měsícem +2

    Now that i think of it, we are kinda fractal-like too… Torso → arms → fingers…

  • @daveenadams588
    @daveenadams588 Před 18 dny

    I seen fractals when I was on magic mushrooms, it looked like vibrating strings of light (search up the “Paisley” Pattern) on a bandana. When I looked closely at grass- every single blade of grass was growing into this ‘energetic pattern.

  • @Usrnet
    @Usrnet Před měsícem +1

    My brain is fractured now.

  • @aryannigam6606
    @aryannigam6606 Před měsícem

    As the video progressed, it felt calming and so soothing. As if life is good now and everything seems beautiful. Saved this video to watch again. Thank you for teaching us cool science stuff Joe❤

  • @Tony-bk1dd
    @Tony-bk1dd Před měsícem

    Did anyone else used to draw fractals as a kid in class? I had triforces everywhere at one point. Seeing this video was like scratching that itch I had as a kid drawing those.

  • @DrewNorthup
    @DrewNorthup Před měsícem +1

    Merry Fracmass

  • @conloon1077
    @conloon1077 Před měsícem +1

    WAKE UP BABE ANOTHER HIGH QUALITY FRACTAL VIDEO JUST DROPPED