"Evolution is chaos with feedback."— Joseph Ford
Order and randomness are not opposed. There is an implicate order within the seemingly random. It is fractal. Fractals are self similar, but never quite identical, patterns generated by long repetition. This fractal order emerges from heaps and piles of similar things. Go ahead and try to make a random order of things. It is not as easy as you think.
Jackson Pollock used paint splatters onto canvas on the floor to make what we now recognize as fractal painting. Anyone can do that, right? Just throw a bunch of paint splatters on the floor! When today's scholars analyzed his fractals, they found them very hard to do. He had a real talent.
Here is my attempt at random colors:
Here it is, fractalized a bit:
When science recently discovered fractals, artists had already been using them, like, forever. Some of my favorite random things are fields of flowers blooming, or the pattern of flowers just beginning to open on a tree, with all different sizes at once.
Fractal geometry seems to be the language of nature, God's math. Trees and clouds, stars and water, crystals and creatures, all share these structures. I also love audio randomness, such as the sound of rain on the roof. Perhaps this is why it feels so good, why we feel good in environments, natural or architectural, with these proportions.
We are looking through fractal body apparatus and a fractal brain, at fractal objects or environments, developed according to fractal math principles! Cool! A circle of mirrors!
"The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. "— Benoit Mandelbrot
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