FRACTAL WAVES HAVE A MEMORY.................... 
Redshoearts has a great post about the link beween art and math -- showing the similarities between Katsushika Hokusai's woodcut "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" -- as far as I'm concerned the most famous depiction of waves in history... (The same picture featured in Disney's surf historical at the beginning of their animated peice, Surf's Up! and a poster which, I imagine, is still hanging in some random spot on the wall in my old house down in Toronto... being moved around day in and day out by Patrick... I smile just thinking about it...) and a fractal wave. Here's the link.
Here's Polvora Spigot's reaction to fractals -- describing "the paradoxical beauty of imminent death and thousands of waves hidden in the foam" in the exact same painting.
More Fractal Wave stuff:
From San Francisco State University:
"According to the DARDIK PRINCIPLE Superwaves is Matter, Space and Organization. All waves are imbedded in other waves across all scales. What we perceive as particles or matter, he contends, is merely a density of waves. Waves are the ultimate phenomena responsible for motion and time, matter and space, and order and chaos. whether exploring disciplines from medicine to astrophysics, ecology, biology and chemistry"
================ >>>>>>>>> And while you're digging into the whole fractal + waves thing, why not check out rad vid of surfers and kite surfers, set to some sick ambient music...
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I read something in one of my books lately, which I don't know if it applies here, but figure you'll get a kick out of it. It's a quote from Emerson and his essay on 'Self Reliance' :
"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water on which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal." (p284)
-Alex
hey, thanks so much for posting that... it's totally true, and kinda crazy
i was blown away when i realized how waves actually move -- a movement without movement... weird huh?
and it's good to know that someone like Emerson is smart enough to look at water and realize that you can learn so much about people and hanging out and communication and friendship -- society -- just by watching waves...
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