Barnsley ferns, but actually explaining each function 

Happy to hear that!

I need to add that citation to the algorithm archive...

Thanks for watching!

Yeah, these ended up being pretty smooth. Really happy with this video!

I've been thinking about this suggestion a lot in the past few days, but I just don't think video is the appropriate medium for me to teach those topics. On the other hand, we really need to make better documentation for GathVL, so it is almost certainly worth doing that and making a highlight video on youtube. In addition, it makes sense for me to highlight the Julia language, but maybe not a full lecture.

Yeah, that's how the process of a chaos game works. There's more information on the algorithm archive about it!

Right, so this was covered kinda in the algorithm archive, but the stem function is only chosen 1% of the time. That said, even if it is chosen at 25% of the time, those points are still likely to jump to either the leaf on the left, right, or upward stem when they choose any other function. From there, the stem will jump to another stem on it's new corresponding leaf. You could imagine every line in the fern to be a bunch of stems.

@@LeiosLabs ah i get you. you select the functions independently for each point, so the fern is a sort of limiting probability distribution.

@@farissaadat4437 No, that wouldn't make sense. The limiting probabilty, even if the probably of the stem function is low, should be that all the points lie on the stem.

@@yonatanbeer3475 but the other functions map it off of the main stem and into the subferns and if you do that enough then it is effectively absorbed into the rest of the distribution as long as you don't roll a 1% stem soon.

@@farissaadat4437 yeah I thought about it for a second, really the whole thing is made of of "stems" shifted around

Done! Here it is in a comment: www.algorithm-archive.org/contents/barnsley/barnsley.html I did before, but must have forgotten to save that tab ^^

@@LeiosLabs Thank you so much! You rock :D

In university, I studied physics. My PhD was focused mainly on computational methods in physics (namely GPGPU). As for universities, I would recommend going to the best one you can that doesn't break your wallet. Then focus on actually acquiring the necessary skills for your job (do projects / research / etc).

I love the vi(m) bindings!