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Fractals: The Colors of Infinity

The Mandelbrot set – someone has called it the thumb-print of God – is one of the most beautiful and remarkable discoveries in the entire history of mathematics.

With Arthur C. Clarke as narrator and interviews with a number of notable mathematicians, including Benoît Mandelbrot, this program graphically illustrates how simple formulas can lead to complicated results: it explains the set, what it means, its internal consistency, and the revolutions in thought resulting from its discovery. Asked if the real universe goes on forever, Stephen Hawking defines its limit of smallness; the Mandelbrot set, on the other hand, may go on forever.

The invention of the silicon chip in the 1970’s created a revolution in computers and communication and hence transformed our way of life. We are now seeing another revolution which is going to change our view of the universe and give us a better understanding of its’ working.

This film will explore the fractal universe and on our voyage of discovery, we will be helped by: Professor Ian Stewart of the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, an author of over 100 published scientific works; Dr. Michael Barnsley, former professor of mathematics at Georgia Institute of Technology who received a 2.5 million dollar government grant in 1991 to develop a fractal image compression systems.

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  1. Exactly…Almost all psychedelics reveal these never-ending fractals to me. The most amazing part of the psychedelic experience is rather than allowing you to escape reality, it shows you a truer reality. And physics and math prove it more and more everyday. <3 Psychedelics

  2. its a dmt trip put in to math

  3. Recently I was telling a friend of mine, when I take LSD I see these endlessly repeating designs in everything and I could focus in on them and see they were made up of lots of tiny versions of themselves, and inside those were really tiny versions of themselves….etc. He told me ´that sounds like fractals´… so I watched this and now my mind is truly blown….

    excellent doc!

  4. Recently I was telling a friend of mine, when I take LSD I see these endlessly repeating designs in everything and I could focus in on them and see they were made up of lots of tiny versions of themselves, and inside those were really tiny versions of themselves….etc. He told me ´that sounds like fractals´… so I watched this and now my mind is truly blown….

    excellent doc!