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Dear Mr. Wolfe,
Scott Huggins suggested that I contact you. He showed me several of your fantastic fractal fulldome videos on Spitz’s SciDome projector, and I’d love to purchase several minutes of your footage for use in our SciDome facility. We have a very small 20-foot diameter dome in which we seat only 35 adults. We are located at a small Christian liberal arts university and I was hoping that perhaps you could sell us some of the footage at less than $400/minute as advertised on the website. Also, the SciDome is a 1K resolution projector, so the video would need to be encoded by Mike Bruno at Spitz. Scott suggested that perhaps we could possibly send the DomeMasters directly to him or Mike Bruno for encoding, although this was just a suggestion.
Please get back to me as soon as you can regarding the details of this. I’d also appreciate receiving a preview DVD so that I could select the footage that would work best for us.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Dave Bradstreet
My daughter is a grad of UNM (2002) and here’s a link to an article in the NY Times a few years back regarding her work with fractals. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/books/02frac.html?ex=1322715600&en=088aba5919b319b2&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Just today she discussed this topic as an invited presenter at the American Physical Society’s March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA. She said the house was packed.. so many people are interested in the art/physics crossover. She is currently working on her doctorate in physics at Case Western Reserve U. in Cleveland Heights, OH.
I’m sure she’d be glad to discuss the work she’s been doing protecting the integrity of fractals!
oh, p.s. I work in the bldg. adjacent to the parking garage that got wrapped.
Apache Elementary would like to thank you for bringing the fractal hot air balloon to our school. The students were so excited to see the return of “The Fractal Man” and one of the coolest hot air balloons in the sky. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit us again. We had a blast!
So went to a show last friday, Fractals Rock. And I must say they do, I am now a new fan seeing how it was my first fractal show. Just wondering where the music was from from that fridays show, I liked the band from boulder, CO that you played and also the track you played during the Druidix fractal zoom. I will be going to more shows in the future but if I can get the names of the musical artists used on Oct. 2 during Fractals Rock I would appreciate it.
Thanks, Jeremy Clark
I would like to have my art students work on Sierpinski triangles for your world record— where do I mail our submissions, and when?
im only 12 but i saw your comercial and tought it was realt cool and was wonderin if i could join up it seems realy fun cant wait to find out
Just attended your presentation at Artesia High School. While the presentation itself was interesting and engaged the students in math and science, your bringing your world view into the presentation was very inappropriate. I feel you owe Artesia High an apology.
Matt - it’s too bad you feel that way! I’m not sure what it was that offended you so, so there’s no way I can apologize. The “world view” I brought to the presentation was simply one of science, math, and art. That’s what I love sharing, and of the ~30,000 children and ~18,000 adults I’ve taught fractals to, you are the FIRST person ever to ask me to apologize. For what, please tell me?! What I brought to your school was anything but inappropriate. The science portions were all thoroughly grounded in evidence and data, and in fact in alignment with the New Mexico state educational Standards.
From your second comment, I gather you are a religious person. Many people of faith find great beauty in fractals, and I believe we all wonder at the miracle and majesty of creation. Indeed, I have delivered a few fractal “sermons” in churches and to religiously-minded groups, where I’ve focused on the awesomeness of the Infinite, and these audiences always respond positively and respectfully to what I have to share. Appreciating the processes through which patterns are formed, how organisms interact with their environments, and how the simple becomes complex, can in fact enhance your own spiritual understanding. I hope your disapproval of my own deeply spiritual - but scientifically grounded - world view doesn’t prevent you from learning from what others have to share.
Your work is amazing. It touches me on a deep, spiritual level. Please continue!!
Yeah, FractalMan - how dare you talk about all those facts, and data, and evidence…!
Matt- a “World View” seems to be a well rounded way to approach educating our youth. Present ALL views and let THEM decide which resonates for them. Narrow-mindedness is deservant of apology. Please try to be more accepting of other perspectives and see where they fit in. Please.
What I think is really sad is that that a student in a state that is steeped in science (SNL, LANL, WIPP, WSMR, UNM, NMSU, NM Tech) isn’t more in tune with the distinction between the science of Earth’s existence and the mythology of it.
I’ve always felt that the impression of the scientific history of NM on education has always been too far disjointed. Science and math education in the state would benefit more from a closer partnership.
L’ aritmetica non e un” opinione
Fractals are really entertaining. I have made some charts for lace knitting from a Hilbert curve, a Sierpinski triangle and Sierpinski square. Because of the proportions of knitting they’re not exactly correct but they convey the essence of the form.
http://www.ad6uy.com/fractal.html
Thank you!
Anneliese
Socorro, NM
Matt Conn,
I think you owe an apology for your deep ignorance and your failure to remedy it through education.
Matt. While i respect you as a person and a teacher, i believe that you are the one who is out of line. There is a separation between church and state for a reason; last time i looked we take ’science’ classes in public school, not theology.
It is extremely inappropriate and unprofessional to bring religious views into school, and then come to this site to degrade a presentation which, from what i understand from both experience and others comments, were completely in-line with NM Schools teaching standards.
Please feel free to contact J. Mike Phipps, Superintendent of Artesia Public School District and the Artesia School Board for your comments on Matt Conn’s outrageous behavior. The link below provides a list of officials.
http://www.bulldogs.org/education/components/sectionlist/default.php?sectiondetailid=207&
HALT! I’ve had to pull the plug on the personal attacks on a previous commenter, and I’ve removed several strongly-felt comments, both signed and anonymous. THANK YOU everyone for defending me and science education - I am grateful. At the same time this forum shouldn’t really be for personal attacks against an individual, so please be nice!
Obviously people care very much about the important distinctions between science and religion, and between religion and school. Please direct any comments you may have about this individual’s beliefs or behaviors to him, personally, or to the Artesia educational authorities as listed above. No more comments will be accepted here about this individual.
Resume talking about fractals, please…
(But I did rather like the post comparing me to Galileo!)
Fractals are in either case very amazing!
Hello,
I am a student and resident adviser at UNM. I have had the privilege of seeing First Friday Fractals. For a while, I have been wanting to either take some students to First Friday Fractal, but it was not possible because the tickets were online, and we are only allotted cash. I was wondering if you could help me work something out where maybe I could reserve some tickets or something else. I think a speaking engagement would also be cool.
I think this would be a wonderfully interesting and educating experience for the students on campus. I would greatly appreciate if you could contact me so maybe I could put something in the works.
igrooms@unm.edu
thanks.
Jonathon,
I should be able to do the time lapse photo for your project. My camera has an intervalometer function. I will let you know for sure Thursday.
Here is the link to FLICKR of the Pi-day Fractal Trianglethon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cherylnewmex/sets/72157623630231972/
Jonathan, sorry don’t have a personal email for you - wanted to follow up about math education for kids who are extra good at it. I had a conversation with our math specialist that I’d like to share. Please let me know how to contact you.
Thanks,
Eva, Cien Aguas
Hello Jonathan and others in your group.
Please check out http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw , a website devoted to evidence-based fractal cosmology and discrete self-similarity.
Feel free to put a link to it on your site.
Keep up the good work!
RLO
My son Shane (5 yrs) loves to play with Xaos. He wants to know if you can walk inside a fractal. I said I was pretty sure you could (they are 3d after all) but would ask you more about that. Has anyone made a fractal representation you can walk inside? Can you think of existing fractals that someone could be inside? I’m pretty sure he wants to walk in and out just like the software takes him in and out…. Thanks?