I cannot BEGIN to thank you for uploading this inspirational wonder, which utterly transformed my conception of the world ... and introduced me to Mahler. When I had a VHS copy, I used to show it to the 13-year-old lads during off-the-wall Latin lessons, along with that wonderful programme on the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire. Alas, both were lost in moving house. Bravo, Richard! Many, many thanks!
Thanks for posting Richard. Had this on VHS along with 'Little By Little' and digitised and transferred both to dvd... unfortunately burned discs will only play first third of programme... so much for backup discs!
This was one of my favourite science episodes. It introduced me to Chaos, and Mahler. I taped it and gave it to my Maths teacher. The next day we watched it in Maths class. Thanks for posting.
Thank you from yet another person who spent years looking for this. My mistake was I remembered it as a BBC Horizon program, it eventually turned up way down on a search. It is easily still the best popular explanation of chaos, despite it's age. Might sound like an old guy ranting, but TV is now very poor, look at the trash C4 turns out now and compare to this.
Quite so. None of the mainstream channels create documentaries that require this level of attention and thought on the part of the viewer any more - they consider it to be elitist. It's a great shame. Fortunately, however, UA-cam is here now, and there are plenty of science communicator channels on here who are willing to still challenge us and make our brains hurt. Veritasium, for example.
I became OBSESSED with the Mandelbrot Set after this TV broadcast, enough to try to recreate it on an 8-bit computer. Of course, it took AGES to render and looked like CRAP compared to the zooms here!
Lol, me too! I used my Amstrad 1640 running GEM Basic to recreate the triangle one (even *I* could programme that, and unlike the MSet, it doesn't require *any* processor power... actually, thinking about it, it could be fun to do with pen and paper...)
Somewhere in my collection, I think I have a copy of an article containing a fairly simple program for producing the Mandelbrot set, although it may take some time to find it. If you have access to a 32 or 64 bit computer, there is an excellent program called Fractal eXtreme available from www.cygnus-software.com/
So did I. In my case, my Dad's Amstrad PCW8256. A 200x200 pixel image of the main peninsula of the set (zoomed enough to see one of the "seahorse tails" took that computer 24 hours to calculate. Amstrad BASIC was not fast...
@@ianmangham4570 I have been living in New Zealand since December 1990, so shipping would be expensive. Thanks to this video, it is now not necessary to play the original.
@@TheAdwatson The price of crap in New Zealand is off the hook, I was reading the other day it cost a kiwi 100 buck's for something I bought for 10 because it was shipping on eBay, Damn nightmare
I remember this video as the example of the processes of feedback that, if the universe is so obviously a temporal superposition, is a constant-continuous assembly of phase-locked states of stable timing duration, and all phenomena are a Topological cause-effect of QM-Time modulation, a moulded real image. The Mandelbrot set is a "reachable" illustration of QM-Time modulation Superspin with measurable parameters of projected calculations. We live in an island-pulse universe of relative evolving stable occurrence in e-Pi-i QM-Time fractal projection, the image of Phys-Chem Constants of Mathematical identification of properties, possibilities in potential possibilities, this Eternity-now superposition.
I cannot BEGIN to thank you for uploading this inspirational wonder, which utterly transformed my conception of the world ... and introduced me to Mahler. When I had a VHS copy, I used to show it to the 13-year-old lads during off-the-wall Latin lessons, along with that wonderful programme on the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire. Alas, both were lost in moving house. Bravo, Richard! Many, many thanks!
Thanks for posting Richard. Had this on VHS along with 'Little By Little' and digitised and transferred both to dvd... unfortunately burned discs will only play first third of programme... so much for backup discs!
This was one of my favourite science episodes. It introduced me to Chaos, and Mahler. I taped it and gave it to my Maths teacher. The next day we watched it in Maths class. Thanks for posting.
Me too ! So glad this Documentary has finally turned up .
Cool
I've been looking for a copy of this for YEARS... I found it overdubbed into German and Narated in Czech.. but not the original. Thank you thank you.
I felt a bit queasy over the copyright issue, but this is practically video archeology. And 28 views seems pretty non-commercial to me!
I have also been looking for this for a long, long, long time a huge thank you for this.
Thank you from yet another person who spent years looking for this. My mistake was I remembered it as a BBC Horizon program, it eventually turned up way down on a search. It is easily still the best popular explanation of chaos, despite it's age. Might sound like an old guy ranting, but TV is now very poor, look at the trash C4 turns out now and compare to this.
Quite so. None of the mainstream channels create documentaries that require this level of attention and thought on the part of the viewer any more - they consider it to be elitist. It's a great shame. Fortunately, however, UA-cam is here now, and there are plenty of science communicator channels on here who are willing to still challenge us and make our brains hurt. Veritasium, for example.
yes from a time less simple huh?
wonderful upload, thank you.
I became OBSESSED with the Mandelbrot Set after this TV broadcast, enough to try to recreate it on an 8-bit computer. Of course, it took AGES to render and looked like CRAP compared to the zooms here!
Lol, me too! I used my Amstrad 1640 running GEM Basic to recreate the triangle one (even *I* could programme that, and unlike the MSet, it doesn't require *any* processor power... actually, thinking about it, it could be fun to do with pen and paper...)
Somewhere in my collection, I think I have a copy of an article containing a fairly simple program for producing the Mandelbrot set, although it may take some time to find it. If you have access to a 32 or 64 bit computer, there is an excellent program called Fractal eXtreme available from
www.cygnus-software.com/
@@TheAdwatson I used Fractal eXtreme back then, it was very good, but if I recall, you had to pay for it.
So did I. In my case, my Dad's Amstrad PCW8256. A 200x200 pixel image of the main peninsula of the set (zoomed enough to see one of the "seahorse tails" took that computer 24 hours to calculate. Amstrad BASIC was not fast...
Very well narrated by actor John Castle.
thankyou so much..remember watching this in the mid 80s..it introduced me to chaos theory and Gustav Mahlers 2nd symphony..
very useful for financial risk portfolio managers and actuaries.
Now my brain hurts.
Still... incredibly fascinating.
Read Mandelbrot's book. That will make your brain hurt but it will grow stronger.
I remember this So well
Thanks Richard Young. An excellent episode. and worth it for 30:08
Classic.
I still have the oiginal I recorded on VHS, but no way to play it anymore. Great to watch it again.
EBay UK for a vcr
@@ianmangham4570 I have been living in New Zealand since December 1990, so shipping would be expensive. Thanks to this video, it is now not necessary to play the original.
@@TheAdwatson The price of crap in New Zealand is off the hook, I was reading the other day it cost a kiwi 100 buck's for something I bought for 10 because it was shipping on eBay, Damn nightmare
I remember this video as the example of the processes of feedback that, if the universe is so obviously a temporal superposition, is a constant-continuous assembly of phase-locked states of stable timing duration, and all phenomena are a Topological cause-effect of QM-Time modulation, a moulded real image.
The Mandelbrot set is a "reachable" illustration of QM-Time modulation Superspin with measurable parameters of projected calculations.
We live in an island-pulse universe of relative evolving stable occurrence in e-Pi-i QM-Time fractal projection, the image of Phys-Chem Constants of Mathematical identification of properties, possibilities in potential possibilities, this Eternity-now superposition.
25th November 1988
I think you mean "...when the most important thing about TV shows was NOT the profit margins"
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