Why trees look like rivers and also blood vessels and also lightning… 

Fractals are cool.

Fractals are cool.

Fr.

Fun fact: Fractals are being used to create realistic computer-generated landscapes and environments in video games and movies. Their self-similar patterns allow for efficient rendering and an infinite level of detail. They have really cool applications.

​@@besmartFractals are cool

Zelda trees

We know

Check out L-systems! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

In real life, the phrase "repeated branching" is better, it's more accurate to the non-infinite nature of things(and the impossibility of a literal mathematical fractal).

Did somebody say Minecraft?

That’s called Fitrah

@@zara__xd i was about to comment "fitrah" haha

@@zara__xdcould you expand on the meaning? I googled it and I can see what the definitions are trying to say but I feel like there’s more to it that I’m not understanding.

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@@TheResistance000 Fitrah is a feature or part of the human soul that predisposes every human to instinctively intuit a higher power (God) from the moment they are born, and this intuition can either be subdued or fostered based on a child's upbringing (i.e., how they are raised). This higher power is all-powerful, all-knowing, the most just, the most beautiful, the most subtle, the all-calculating, etc., and has created time and space in a way that reflects His attributes. Just like when a certain carpenter or artist has a signature style, the "style" of God's creation reflects His attributes. So the TL;DR of why i wanted to comment fitrah is that, for Muslims, there is nothing in creation that is the way it is by accident. So when our lungs take in CO2 and produce O2 and water, and trees do the exact opposite, and they both look similar (aka the "fractal" thing in this video), they have been designed that way on purpose. And children, who have a very strong "fitrah"-an innate sense that "the sky looks beautiful because God made it" or "that leaf looks like a bee's wing, and a tree's branches, and lightning. that's so cool that they were all made like that"-are more likely to look at things like fractals and see them as signs pointing to their origin (being created by God to specifically look that way). I ranted a bit, but I hope that helps somewhat!

And then the little tentacles on the fingertips! Wait, you have those, right?

@@siquod and the antennas on those tentacles. wait am i in the wrong dimention again dammit

🤯🤯

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I think that's a "stretch" ... I'll see myself out.

study supersymmetry and apply that understanding to your own cognition, thank me in a decade or two when you start mastering what it truly means.... hint: buddhist monks have figured it out for centuries through buddhist cosmology.

@@metasamsara How do you apply supersymmetry to your own cognition? As far as I know, it is related to quantum mechanics.

@@metasamsara Most physicists don't even agree with SUSY, and there is no supporting evidence. In addition, multiple experiments failed to show that SUSY is true, also the Buddhists didn't know about fermion-boson spin correspondence theories, no one even knew anything about particle spin untill 1922, and was only understood later. Not to mention almost all of the things the theory claims to be linked didn't exist(bose-einstein and fermi-dirac statistics etc).

@@αβγδε nothing exists without its opposite, push, pull, left, right, up, down, front, back, relax, stress, etc, etc. valid for emotions and for nerve control and for thinking about physics in vectors☯ valid for conflict resolution, for power balance, for physical impacts, for gravity, for magnetism, for oh so many things. in fact, for everything that exists. To manifest you must define, to define you must exclude the rest. to exclude the rest you have to acknowledge it. light doesn't exist without darkness. Everything is like that, and supersymmetry works as a philosophy just as well as to explain quantum entanglement. and quantum mechanics are just what we call science that is ahead of the outdated theory of general relativity. everything is quantum. at every scale, in every context, of every substance or idea, all is quantum. quantum is the inability to simplify in order to explain. quantum is real time physics obeying supersymmetry and regulated by entropy.

​@@metasamsaraYou cool if I copy this into a journal?

Well said!

Like spheres are holding everything in it (surface tension) while fractals are letting go, to gain bigger surface area. Which also reminds me of ying and yang.

That's poetic! And to think that both opposites in that sense, fractals and spheres, have the same fundamental origin: Energy minimization.

@@carlosdoerner Fractals to collect, spheres to hold, both with minimal energy cost.

@@carlosdoerner🤯

Good analogy!

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But is the sheet really 2-D?

my brain is vomiting, thank you 🙏🏾

@@JC-justchillin Technically, because of the 3d nature of the universe, absolutely not... but it's perfect for showing the concept.

hence more of them applied into modern human life through biomimicry, now! 🥺💚

Same here. Some of the simplest, most common-place things in nature can be literally awe-inspiring when you think about them a certain way.

cause nature is not just accident

It’s kinda funny how people denounce God but apply some of his attributes to nature being like ohhhh nature did this 🤡 mf who is nature 🤡

I legitimately did a golf clap at that one.

agreed, immediately texted four of my nerdiest friends and begged them to text the same joke to their four nerdiest friends. and so on

That slapped hard 😂

@@alecsyogacorner 😂😂😂😂

​@@alecsyogacorner Friends?

I noticed them just naturally when I was younger. I then tried mushrooms and it just enhanced it and I’ve been obsessed with these curious observations as well as others. Just opens up many more questions…

That's really interesting. That could be "path of least resistance = preference of maximum efficiency". Maybe just a linguistic trick, but, we process things through our own filters. Thanks!

And least competition

Constructal Theory is a branch of engineering that does this. The idea is to mathematically play off two competing requirements in a system to find the optimum solution. The cost to make more wood in a tree is played off against the increase in leaf surface area for example. Where it gets really interesting is that it can also be used to predict the transition of a flow to turbulence, based on energy minimisation, without any need to model the fluid in detail at all. Any system with 2 ways of achieving some requirement, one being quick but expensive and the other being slow but cheap can be modeled this way. A classic example is heat sinking, where for example expensive but more conductive copper and cheaper but less conductive aluminium are used together. The optimum solution creates branched geometries without any guidance but the properties of the materials.

that's basically what he said but he used the word efficiency, because it has to be efficient too in order to last, not just the easiest path. as someone else said, mostly a linguistic detail.

​@genesises it's a linguistic detail that matters because it implies different concepts. Saying something "makes it's self the most efficient" makes it seem like it is self governing, conscious, or something is instructing it. In reality, it simply grows towards the path that is easiest to travel. Much like a river travelling down a valley.

chaos is a concept with no relation to reality because 'order' and 'chaos' are just concepts in a relative universe

@@Purwapada chaos theory has real world applications though. it describes systems that are very sensitive to initial conditions like the weather, double pendulums, and many others. In fact, it was developed by meteorologist/mathematician Edward Lorenz.

@@joseville im writing my thesis about this rn :D

Can we relate this phenomenon of fractals in nature to entropy?

Unbelievable. I noticed this exact thing as a child, without a clue about fractals. My veins, lightning, and trees.

fungus among us?

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And hitting a window just hard enough for it to spiderweb i now realize its energy that the glass took in 😊😊😊

That was my first thought!

Let it go...

I thought you said “power furries” at first

@@nikkireigns 🤣

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Same here, accept its because i have a rare blood condition where my vessels burn internally. People say it looks like i got struck by lightning when it flares up 🤣😂😂😂😂 All jokes btw lmao

People call me a schmuck. 😢

Some people call me Maurice.

@@TitularHeroine Cause you speak of the pompatus of love?

what

I have trees in my brain

@@cryptidofthemarshes1680 Brain is trees 😂

My WAGuess is that when you look at something like how it competes against other plants/animals, and other details about how it takes in nutrients, from what heights its competeing to be optimal, and things like how much energy it takes to move the leaves, the answer will start to show up a bit. So, in those particular cases, its patterns are more optimal than other plants that its competing with

Isn't that awesome & true!

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Does eating beans help the Kidneys?

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Indeed!!✝️📖🙏🏻❤️

I mean, yes, energy gradients are the source of all things happening in the universe, but what the hell is "fractals are the natural method of energetic sophistication in the universe" supposed to mean?

@@NeovanGoth Fractals could be considered one of the most basic languages in the Universe, like binary code, it can infinity articulate itself on the micro and macro level in order to communicate information.

Are there bald kiwifruits?

Thats unfortunate. Sounds like if they couldve done it with a bit more prep, that it wouldve made for a very interesting lecture. Its always great when peoples interests match what theyre teaching

there are no laws of physics. just observed regularities, which can only be understood as regular by comparing them to something else regular. Which is a fallacy and collapses in the face of induction

@@Purwapada something defines our universe. Physics exist. and our understanding of it is relative. That is all. The physics of the universe is very real. Dont get carried away with 'nothing has any meaning' level philosophy ...

@@andrew5744 physics does not exist, it is the logical application of a conceptual framework. Based in the supposition that phenomena have a true existence. Why? Because, an existent is not born of an existent (because it already exists), an existent is not born of a non existent, a non existent does not come from an existent, and a non existent cannot come from an already non existent. As such there can be no arising of a true existent.

@@Purwapada again ur getting carried away with philosophical mumbo jumbo. mathematics exist as if I have one of this and I have one of this, I now have 2. Mathematics exists in our universe. If I walk off a building on earth, I fall because of gravity. That is physics existing. Our gravity is a constant rate of acceleration pulling downwards which is why we walk on the ground. Consistent Forces act upon us. And We apply force to move. That is physics. Not in any way saying our physics are 100% correct. But physics and mathematics exists one way or another regardless of what philosophy u attempt to bring to the table. We presently live in this reality that has an existing system of math and physics.

@@Purwapada one very philosophical person could of course say physics doesn’t exist, time doesn’t exist, math doesn’t exist, and plague everyone with unhelpful questions like well how do we know anything exists? But the fact of the matter is you exist. So you must acknowledge what you exist with currently. If you want to say u don’t exist. Be my guest. Don’t go around talking it’s fact tho. Kinda like genders. U wanna identify as something. Go for it. Think what u want, but don’t push that bs depressing mindset upon others who can acknowledge we live in this reality, whether or not it’s a dream and we’re in a coma or we’re a simulation, we are here… so how could u sanely try to implement that as the norm upon others. U say “physics doesn’t exist” like it’s fact. No, that’s your philosophical rabbit hole. Like the piers Morgan clip where the dude is telling Morgan that he is a cisgendered male when no, the world doesn’t run off of your individual phrases you’re attempting to make up, Morgan identifies as a male period which was his point. We all have our own interpretations of reality. And I, as well as many others can appreciate this vast system of math and science that dictates our universe. To say physics doesn’t exist is to do deny said “framework.” Yes physics and time and math are man made concepts to understand the framework. If we didn’t call time anything. Time still ticks and goes on. But we do have our way of understanding said framework by calling it time. So time does exist. To an alien civilization they could call this framework we call time zoobadoobah. And zoobadoobah would exist because it’s their way of understanding and describing the existing framework. The “framework” exists and thus our way of interpretation which is physics, time, math exists, whatever argument u wanna get into. This is like a caveman argument. It’s like oh, well friction with this wood and oxygen creates this warm bright source that emerges and that potential exists regardless of if they had words for it or not when cavemen discovered what we know as fire. But obviously to advance as humans, they did create words for it in their native languages. “Man make fire” so they call it fire. Thus Fire exists. And man also exists. You’re literally arguing about concepts not existing when concepts are just describing what exists. Cuz even if fire wasn’t called fire. What we know as fire still exists.

That's pretty neat!

With landscapes, when reality breaks away from self similarity is also super interesting. Kenton Musgrave talked about that in Texturing and Modelling (I believe it was) Then of course, mixing the 2 to get really great stuff is so much fun.

Wait until you discover Perlin noise. ;)

We are indeed made in His image

I think that is very dependent on the species. Some are evolved to create a shallow communal "root mat", but some depend on "tap roots" to dig deep for water.

These words have no meaning.

This is true. You baiting?

@@borttorbbq2556 what is the meaning of "baiting"?

Emergence can explain free-will and intention, we can't explain emergence using only the scientific fact of uncontrollably(regardless of the deterministically vs. randomality of quantum mechanics)

@@uasserkamal2002 Basically, you say something you know will piss people to get people to reply. It kinda forces interactions. I do it often. In this case you're saying the quiet part.

@@spoperty4940 hmmm explain that to the experiments involving this. Your brain makes the decision even if "you" are thinking it over.

I can’t unsee it now…

Oh man

Mind blown.

it made me think that the human body itself looks like a weird stylized hand too, like a biped like seastar

That scene in Ghost und the Shell where tiny mechanical fingers come out of a hacker's fingers. :D

This is underrated

And it’s only 3 minutes old

*insert 12th ranting*

This and the clikcbaity titles on this one and related channels lately. I get its for the algorithm, but still.

And the hello smart people...😢

Depends on the species. A lot of desert plants have roots systems that are way bigger than their part above the ground and vice versa for a lot of tropical species. But I agree, you can't generalize them as such, but that's exactly the same for your comment as well. 🙂

the point made isn't that they look identical - noone "used to think this". you'd be pretty special to believe there were branches and leaves identical, but underground - and maybe equally special to make this into some kind of argument lol. the point is that the fractal pattern is the same.

@@BackYardScience2000 well yes but, obviously, here he is referring to averagw trees in fairly 'normal' temperate environments. The kind of trees you see around your house when you go outside. I don't think he is referring to any exotic desert growing plants.

​@@genesiseswww.yourleaf.org/blog/brenna-anstett/sep-18-2014/mythbusters-getting-root-it

Well said!