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Fractals: The Colors of Infinity
1995 · Film · documentary · 52 min
Directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Explores the revolutionary world of Fractal Geometry - its far-reaching and often unexpected implications - its powerful and revolutionary applications.
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A couple of years back I saw a documentary on fractals ("Fractals: The Colors of Infinity", narrated by Arthur C. Clarke, with music by Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd - that was one groovy documentary!) where they showed this mathematician who apparently had a research grant from some military-intelligence-ish government agency to develop fractal image compression for their spy satellites. I wondered why I never that technology in action, and I figured it had something to do with the amount of secrecy surrounding spy satellites.
It is kind of sad that the reason is so much more mundane.