{"id":1120,"date":"2014-07-03T07:19:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2018-07-25T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T08:20:01","slug":"a-glimpse-of-fractals-in-cad-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mertboru.com\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"A glimpse of Fractals in CAD+ magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the late 80s and early 90s, I was more than obsessed with fractals<\/a>! Since the day I saw beautiful landscape pictures rendered with Vista<\/a> on my humble Amiga 500<\/a>, I was addicted to writing simple<\/strong> <\/span>mathematical routines producing complex<\/strong> <\/span>images. The philosophy behind fractal math was based on “harmony of contradiction”<\/em>. You may think of it as a mathematical case where “simplicity defines complexity”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The beauty of fractals is simply not limited to math. In literary terms, it can be indirectly<\/em> related to understanding the ways of nature, science, art, philosophy, and even religion. The concept of “self-similarity<\/a>” can easily be seen in almost every academic discipline. I can honestly utter that it is more than a “Science meets Art”<\/em> case.<\/p>\n

Back to the Future<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1994 –precisely 20 years ago<\/em>– I was the Technical Editor of CAD+,<\/em> an unorthodox CAD\/CAM\/Multimedia magazine published in Istanbul. Contrary to engineering magazines of the period, CAD+<\/em> was beyond the zeitgeist of the early 90s, thanks to Editor in Chief G\u00f6kalp Baykal<\/a>‘s creative, critical and visionary attitude towards publishing.<\/p>\n

During those days, my obsession with fractals was already fueled with “Chaos: Making a New Science”<\/em> (1987) and “Nature’s Chaos”<\/em> (1990) by James Gleick<\/a>. As I was fed up with writing hardcore inline assembly routines in Borland C++ 3.1<\/a> for faster (and faster!) fractals, I was looking forward to writing some tutorials\/articles. So, I took down some notes, simplified them so that even the-man-on-the-street can understand it, rendered a few fractals on my new i486DX2-66<\/a> powered desktop PC, and shared them with the editorial team. – They loved it!<\/p>\n

To salute the most visionary and unconventional CAD\/CAM magazine of all time (well, at least for me), I would like to share 2 articles<\/strong> on fractals that were published 20 years ago in CAD+<\/em>. Although they are in Turkish, you can still enjoy the artwork. A visual feast for pre-multimedia enthusiasts, if I may say so…<\/p>\n

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CAD+ magazine, Issue 11<\/strong>
\n(January, 1994)<\/strong><\/p>\n