Submitted by Myriam Mahiques
The Chaos Game: Some Considerations About Urban Patterns
Architecture News - Nov 13, 2009 - 05:07 5492 views
Julia sets, that are outcomes of deterministic processes, proved to have a second valid existence as the limit of a random process. Barnsley suggested an analogy for this situation: one could imagine a map of Great Britain drawn in chalk on the floor of a room. A surveyor could find it complicated to measure this awkward shape with fractal coastlines. But, if grains of rice are thrown into the air, allowing them to fall randomly on the floor, these grains inside the map could be counted. As times goes on, the result begins to approach the area of the map. That is the limit of the random process.
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