Following up on yesterday's post, here's the interviewee's web site: The Genetics of Design
As you might expect, interesting stuff. Of particular interest was this post on natural fractals and their echoes in good design. It reminds me of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with all of the bare trees around here. Note that these were not just "stripped of their leaves" bare; rather, they had been stripped down to trunks and perhaps a few large limbs, with lots of broken parts hanging down. Bad as that was, things got even worse over the next few months. The trees, desperate to get any leaves out into the sun they could, quickly grew small twigs from every likely surface and extruded leaves from these. The result didn't so much look like trees as broken pieces of wood with masses of greenish sponge applied in patches. Very disturbing to be surrounded by these for months on end. Finally, somewhere around the five year mark, things started looking somewhat normal again.
So yeah, look at fractals that have the right dimension. It's good for your brain.
Shamelessly borrowed from the above-linked blog post. I pulled out some Katrina pictures and was about to post those, but why put more ugliness into people's eyeballs?
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