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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Catch a more in-depth interview with Ben on our Numberphile Podcast: th-cam.com/video/-tGni9ObJWk/w-d-xo.html

    • @CC-hx8gj
      @CC-hx8gj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      based

    • @mikebar42
      @mikebar42 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are all the dice rolls done by hand or is it simulated random?

  • @acetate909
    @acetate909 5 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    "I'm not going to go into the details. It's worth looking up".
    Dammit, you are the "looking up" process.

  • @STOG01
    @STOG01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2762

    This is suspiciously interesting.

    • @Triumvirate888
      @Triumvirate888 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      One might even say Auspiciously interesting...

    • @STOG01
      @STOG01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Anything mathematical is eventually auspicious. Just a matter of when.

    • @Lucerne9
      @Lucerne9 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It makes me fascinated to how mathematical reality is. Many assume biology and math are far apart, but then there's the affiliations like that in the video

    • @christosvoskresye
      @christosvoskresye 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That idea can be taken too far, Tate H, and often has in the past. It is possible today to extend the ancient fascination with numerology far beyond the positive integers.

    • @seamusandpat
      @seamusandpat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Spaciously interesting!

  • @Cragoon
    @Cragoon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +609

    This is the shape of procrastination, always changing your mind halfway through different task.

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      So prpcrastination is a fractal

    • @tompeck5495
      @tompeck5495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      As someone who is watching this while procrastinating from homework this hit closer to home than I'd like.

    • @neerajkrishnang3916
      @neerajkrishnang3916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      So that's how you end up Jack of all trades and master of none, because of all the holes in your skills..🤔

    • @blitsriderfield4099
      @blitsriderfield4099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      so the shape of procrastination is the triforce...makes sense

    • @paulrussell1207
      @paulrussell1207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      See the big triangle that gets left out? Your 1st class honours degree is hiding in there!

  • @hierro09
    @hierro09 7 ปีที่แล้ว +980

    Ben: "this is a familiar shape"
    Me: Yes of course it is, after many years of gaming I know it's a trif-
    Ben: "it's the Sierpinski gasket"
    Me: -erpinski gasket, yes... Worked with it a lot, sure.

    • @arthurthekyogre9155
      @arthurthekyogre9155 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      It's a triforce fractal

    • @anawesomepet
      @anawesomepet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What is a Sirepinski triangle? I only know about the triforce.

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      SPSheep
      It’s what you get when you replace each filled triangle in the Triforce with a smaller Triforce, and repeat infinitely many times.

    • @brandoncarson905
      @brandoncarson905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ragnkja It's triforces all the way down...

    • @simonmultiverse6349
      @simonmultiverse6349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      (1) those three points... move them a bit, so that it's not an equilateral triangle. Make it a long, skinny triangle if you want. Then the resulting Sierpinski gasket will be long and skinny. (2) OK, you want a SQUARE?? Easy: have four points, not three. Go halfway towards a (randomly-chosen) corner point, and plot your position as a point. Repeat it all day. (3) How about a distorted square, one that's seriously knocked out of shape. The same rules will result in a bent/twisted quadrilateral version of the Sierpinski gasket.

  • @qwertyfinger
    @qwertyfinger 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2076

    THIS IS THE WEIRDEST MATHS THING IVE EVER SEEN

    • @Triumvirate888
      @Triumvirate888 7 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      I read a book a long time ago that had a quote in it that sums this up perfectly. "You look around and see the whole world falling apart. But you are wrong. The world is NOT falling apart. It is falling into place."

    • @DaveGeelen88
      @DaveGeelen88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      look for = hanoi binairy :D
      You will be amazed again

    • @JayTheYggdrasil
      @JayTheYggdrasil 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      lifeinsepia just look up iterated function systems, it's almost the same thing but better

    • @michagrill9432
      @michagrill9432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      DeutschMaga Was isn dat? XD

    • @DaveGeelen88
      @DaveGeelen88 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      towers of hanoi
      and the link to binary counting
      very amazing :D

  • @razielhamalakh9813
    @razielhamalakh9813 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1680

    This man can't roll dice to save his life.

    • @GreenGodDiary
      @GreenGodDiary 7 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      It's because of the paper. It cushions the dice faling and makes it slide instead.

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 7 ปีที่แล้ว +221

      I don't know, if his survival depended on rolling a 1 or 2, I think he'd be pretty safe!

    • @ZXLegend1
      @ZXLegend1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Is this a Kaiji reference?

    • @MenacingBanjo
      @MenacingBanjo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      I guess that means he's going to... die.

    • @2dividedby3equals666
      @2dividedby3equals666 7 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      That is not a dice it is a camouflaged Parker cube.

  • @cobaltbluesky2276
    @cobaltbluesky2276 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Slightly disturbed about reality” prefectly describes how I felt when that shape appeared. I am a changed man

  • @timchallenge
    @timchallenge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Chaos theory is literally my favorite area of mathematics, I would honestly love an entire channel dedicated simply to that one field.

    • @DLCS-2
      @DLCS-2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same

  • @alejandronq645
    @alejandronq645 7 ปีที่แล้ว +807

    This is probably my favourite numberphile video ever made

    • @TheSunriseAnimation
      @TheSunriseAnimation 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      After the "Amazing Circles" one, its my favorite!

    • @alejandronq645
      @alejandronq645 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lila_Kuh98 that one was great too

    • @benjamindavid4360
      @benjamindavid4360 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Feigenbaum Constant video is as mindblowing as this one.

    • @jacoblpeterson
      @jacoblpeterson 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SAME!

    • @abhinavNJ
      @abhinavNJ 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interested

  • @highlewelt9471
    @highlewelt9471 7 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    Please more vids with this guy about chaos theory!

  • @sirstar45
    @sirstar45 7 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    When that simulation ran, my jaw genuinly dropped. That is so amazing I have no words.

    • @jamiedonaldson794
      @jamiedonaldson794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same I thought how? just how?

    • @AribZeeshan
      @AribZeeshan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamiedonaldson794 Yes Bro.....This Is Crazy

  • @knotwrite
    @knotwrite 7 ปีที่แล้ว +328

    Watching this video is like peeling back the curtain on reality. I need to go sit down for a bit.

    • @imaclock8144
      @imaclock8144 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      what did you ever think math was in the first place?

    • @uniqueusername_
      @uniqueusername_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im a clock I couldn’t have put it better. People who don’t like math confuse me.

    • @theliamofella
      @theliamofella 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm a clock and unique user name, so this is just obvious and not profound in any way? So what has this video got to say about mathematics, if you are fantastic at maths be humble about it

    • @theliamofella
      @theliamofella 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ?

    • @theliamofella
      @theliamofella 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually, I take that back, it doesn't mean anything profound about reality, it's just a shape that has to happen given the rules etc

  • @boalollal242
    @boalollal242 7 ปีที่แล้ว +411

    Disappointed there wasn't a giant eye in the middle.

    • @theliamofella
      @theliamofella 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Or a ganja leaf lol

    • @raphaelkelly861
      @raphaelkelly861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@theliamofella honestly though imagine something like that emerging from iterated randomness. Probably is some way to do it...

  • @emdadahmed5592
    @emdadahmed5592 7 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Thank you, numberphile, for another great video. Every video my fascination for fractals grows stronger

  • @santinxt
    @santinxt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    If you play the same game in 3D with the vertices of a cube and the midpoints of the edges and instead of dividing the distances by 2 dividing them by 3, after enough iterations you will get a Menger sponge.

    • @Benny_Blue
      @Benny_Blue 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Would that be going one third the distance, two thirds the distance, or either/or?

    • @santinxt
      @santinxt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Benny_Blue one third the distance. I'm actually not entirely sure what would happen if you took 2/3 the distance instead.

  • @WayneStakem
    @WayneStakem 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    _"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone."_

    • @nghiepluu6939
      @nghiepluu6939 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wayne S t

    • @I_AM-MICHAEL
      @I_AM-MICHAEL 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like something the pot gods would say.

  • @boobyjustin
    @boobyjustin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +103

    That gave my goose bumps' goose bumps goose bumps

    • @danielodors
      @danielodors 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Justin Booby your goose bumps became fractals.

    • @stone7327
      @stone7327 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

    • @simonmultiverse6349
      @simonmultiverse6349 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stone7327 Here's a fractal: bufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbufbuffalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalofalo

  • @mighty8357
    @mighty8357 7 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    I'm genuinely baffled by this result :O I would have never guessed that rolling a dice could be linked to fractal theory!

    • @DarkTF2Director
      @DarkTF2Director 7 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      it has to do more with he fact hat he always moves half the distance and he only has specific point where to aim

    • @gavinhowe9897
      @gavinhowe9897 7 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      the rules are the fractal, not the randomness, the rules chosen in these scenarios are more like stencils, with the dice being more of a spray paint.

    • @hhouse1234
      @hhouse1234 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      cool analogy! :)

    • @benbooth2783
      @benbooth2783 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There is no information that can create structure in the random set of numbers generated by the dice. The structure comes from the number of dots and the rules.

    • @simonmultiverse6349
      @simonmultiverse6349 ปีที่แล้ว

      The die just takes you on a random walk through the possibilities. The rule (i.e. move half-way to one of the three fixed points) defines the shape. The die just causes you to sample all possible combinations of moves. You could EQUALLY WELL systematically try moves 1,2,3 then 11 12 13 21 22 23 31 32 33 then 111 112 113 121 122 123 131 132 etc. then all combinations of 4 points then all combinations of 5 points, etc.
      That would be a SYSTEMATIC sample, but you'd visit every possible combination eventually. The die makes you visit every possible combination/point but in RANDOM order.
      One way makes you visit every point systematically; the other way makes you visit every point in random order.

  • @JohnSmith-kc6ov
    @JohnSmith-kc6ov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    This is one of the few math things that made me go "holy sh*t"

  • @ivanberdichevsky5679
    @ivanberdichevsky5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:49 "This is a familiar shape" , of course it is! That's the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda

  • @swingardium706
    @swingardium706 7 ปีที่แล้ว +335

    *Vi Hart screaming in the distance*

  • @iammaxhailme
    @iammaxhailme 7 ปีที่แล้ว +424


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  • @Glumurinn
    @Glumurinn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The bit starting at 3:15 is almost magical, and the music really makes it even more so!

  • @suvetar
    @suvetar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the whole concept of emergent behaviour, it's the computer science equivalent of the importance of hearing someone in the laboritory repeating an experiement and saying the equivalent of "That' odd/strange/cool/unbelievable!"
    Thanks as always folks 🙂

  • @DashedSimpusMaximus
    @DashedSimpusMaximus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    "The rules of the universe can be written down on a single piece of paper"
    Math is the language of god it seems.

    • @Bleagle
      @Bleagle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's the language of structure/patterns, and without those (think pure chaos) life can't form or exist long enough to become intelligent. no intelligent life => noone to discover math

    • @DomCurtis2023
      @DomCurtis2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look up nikola Tesla and his 369 theory

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Makes you think. The universe could have been invented one evening in a bar, as a brief and sketchy calculation on a napkin.

    • @sillysausage4549
      @sillysausage4549 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      S

  • @whoeveriam0iam14222
    @whoeveriam0iam14222 7 ปีที่แล้ว +506

    can you share that drawing dots program with us? it looks fun to play with
    edit: it's in the description now =D

    • @tsugua001
      @tsugua001 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      It's called geogebra, I have no idea how he did it though

    • @turun_ambartanen
      @turun_ambartanen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      then he should share the .ggb (or whatever) file. the fern doesn't look like it was in geogebra though.

    • @Brotcrunsher
      @Brotcrunsher 7 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      whoeveriam0iam14222 I could code this quickly and i probably will. If enough people are interessted then I will share it and make it open source on github.

    •  7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      we are very interested

    • @turun_ambartanen
      @turun_ambartanen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am very interested.

  • @Alexander-is9jo
    @Alexander-is9jo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is absolutely mind-blowing

  • @matthewd759
    @matthewd759 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I couldn't resist but stay late and create this on Excel after work... on a Friday....

    • @corpsiecorpsie_the_original
      @corpsiecorpsie_the_original 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was just thinking that this could be created in excel

    • @marklafrentz1070
      @marklafrentz1070 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me: *furiously opens matlab to create this so I can play with it*

  • @props3311
    @props3311 7 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Triforce confirmed

    • @DarkTF2Director
      @DarkTF2Director 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      GermanLoLCaster my first thought was "oh it looks like a triforce"

    • @GuyWithAnAmazingHat
      @GuyWithAnAmazingHat 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Seems like the Triforce is indeed the Power of the Gods.

    • @ale_schneider
      @ale_schneider 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It specially reminds me of Deus Ex. Like, this is the most Deus Ex thing I've seen in a while.

    • @fricktion01
      @fricktion01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      %triforce

    • @megatrix500
      @megatrix500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      you mean infiniforce

  • @theorist-qx4vz
    @theorist-qx4vz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow wow.
    Predictable in the relative macro-scale, chaos system is insane, and beautiful.

  • @rukia3947
    @rukia3947 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is soooo cool!!! I wrote and tried out the program at home and it came beautifully! It never ceases to fascinate me!

  • @SocksWithSandals
    @SocksWithSandals 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loved the mystical sitar chord during the computer fractal render.

  • @khan_msj5680
    @khan_msj5680 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    how dislike the video, this is the most interesting video ever...

    • @bingobangini
      @bingobangini 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      because it's kinda misleading...

  • @craken1566
    @craken1566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:56 the fact that also the starting point is replicated in the smaller triangle at the bottom right just blow my mind that's Crazy

  • @emilianonavarro2858
    @emilianonavarro2858 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just managed to program the thing in Octave(GUI). It's simply amazing, and the code is so simple. Breathtaking.

  • @peepock7796
    @peepock7796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:14
    I immediately recognized that as serpinsky’s triangle.
    I drew it in my grade 7 science binder!

  • @frankfranksen204
    @frankfranksen204 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Cool things happen if you go twice the distance instead of half. Doesn't diverge and looks different every time, kind of like DNA in its densely packed state in the nucleus.

    • @fakename3344
      @fakename3344 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Could you link to an example of that? And maybe comment after you do? TH-cam likes to tell you that it's posted comments with links when it really didn't.

    • @nonazjr5120
      @nonazjr5120 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fakename3344 You can easily do it in the link I posted as another comment and on my Twitter (@Nonaz_jr). You can DM me if you need help.

  • @swingyflingex3458
    @swingyflingex3458 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please do more on this, it's so fascinating!

  • @iambranden
    @iambranden 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was incredible!!!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video!

  • @doodelay
    @doodelay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    First time seeing the fern before, blew my mind.

  • @IMadeOfClay
    @IMadeOfClay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Years ago I was playing around on my calculator in maths class and I noticed something strange:
    tan 89= 57.28996163
    tan 89.9= 572.9572134
    tan 89.99= 5729.577893
    tan 89.999= 57295.77951
    tan 89.9999= 572957.7951
    tan 89.99999= 5729577.951
    If you compare this to how many degrees in a radian (57.29577951) you notice two things:
    (i) the order of the digits get closer and closer to the order of 1 radian (in degrees),
    (ii) each time the numbers increase by approximately a factor of ten.
    I'm not a professional mathematician. I wonder if anyone can give me an answer after all these years. Then I can die peacefully lol.

    • @glenneric1
      @glenneric1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      As you keep going to 1/10th the remaining distance from your angle to 90 degrees you keep multiplying the tangent by 10/1... 10/1 and 1/10 are reciprocals, as you might expect for a line approaching infinite steepness.

    • @dieselguitar1440
      @dieselguitar1440 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I hope you still get this notification after 2 years. As x (in degrees) approaches 0, tan(90-x)/tan(90-(x/n)) approaches n, n=10 in this case. This is because tanx=sinx/cosx. As x approaches 0 and 90-x approaches 90, sinx is basically 1, while cos x becomes nearly proportional to x (zoom in real close on cosx at x = 90 degrees and you'll see it's basically a line going straight through the origin, that is to say, y is x times a constant.) So, when you divide the difference from 90 by 10, sin stays pretty much the same, while cos goes down by a factor of pretty much 10, and so tanx=sinx/cosx gets multiplies by 1/(1/10)=10. If my statements about the behaviour of sin and cos don't make sense to you, you should know that their values correspond to the y and x axes respectively for sin and cos, which should serve as an intuitive/visual basis for understanding all this. I didn't look this up, I figured it out from intuition of the trig functions, it's a valuable skill.

    • @redtoxic8701
      @redtoxic8701 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's just an exercise of limits. If you want to see the proof to your question just tell me, I'll post it on imgur

    • @FlyingSagittarius
      @FlyingSagittarius 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dieselguitar1440 hey, you never know when someone stumbles upon this two years later and wants to know the answer too. 😋

  • @travisstahler4171
    @travisstahler4171 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Someone posted this to reddit without linking this. Took me a little digging but I finally found YOUR video. Had to make sure you got the view and a like here. Have to give credit and respect where it's due. Love the video

  • @klaasbil8459
    @klaasbil8459 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:21 that is incredible! I shouted out loud Wow!

  • @raiyanbasher9529
    @raiyanbasher9529 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is the best video of numberphile
    Together with the pizza one and minus one by 12 one.

  • @DonGeritch
    @DonGeritch 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At first I thought - oh, this seems a lot like my life (changing goals all the time and not reaching anything, no matter how close I get). But seeing the result got me thinking..

  • @Wild4lon
    @Wild4lon 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learned this in an extra curricular maths course and about the applications of serpkinski triangles! It's honestly fascinating

  • @siddhartharoy2233
    @siddhartharoy2233 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its a strange pattern that makes me think deeply...thanks Numberphile for such an amazing video...as a math geek I will be waiting for more videos like this

  • @aleratz
    @aleratz 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I am pretty sure that if you do it too much you end up summoning some kind of demon.

  • @neingeben9510
    @neingeben9510 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've seen this shape before when working with Cellular Automatons

    • @simonmultiverse6349
      @simonmultiverse6349 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Can we have that argument about "automatons" v. "automata" ? Please? Please please PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE?

  • @hellothere11
    @hellothere11 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is beyond interesting! More videos with Ben please.

  • @spencerwadsworth7024
    @spencerwadsworth7024 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is one of the most intense surprises I have ever experienced

  • @dgtlrn
    @dgtlrn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    But what if Wil Wheaton rolled the dice?

    • @bobrobert1123
      @bobrobert1123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This comment

    • @nblack3879
      @nblack3879 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      A straight line that infinitely points towards one.

    • @qwertyquazo673
      @qwertyquazo673 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Excellent question.

    • @bravojr
      @bravojr 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I can think of no other man who fails so hard he breaks chaos...
      Brilliant!

    • @bobrobert1123
      @bobrobert1123 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is that a pit of acid?

  • @dalitas
    @dalitas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I genuinely went "what the...."

  • @Roxfox
    @Roxfox 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a delightful moment, that revelation! I love it.

  • @lifter1000
    @lifter1000 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Ben Sparks, your subjects are amazingly beautiful 🙏

  • @morismateljan6458
    @morismateljan6458 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Astounding! But what shape would appear if we tried that with 3D object?????

    • @bevkcan
      @bevkcan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the sierpinski tetrahedron

    • @Jordan-mn2ty
      @Jordan-mn2ty 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or a circle with infinitely many points

  • @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472
    @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Very interesting but I wouldn't say it's baffling. Just reverse engineer the point in the middle of the Serpinski Triangle. How do you get there? No point in that triangle is halfway between anything and one of the vertices.

    • @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472
      @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ***** not halfway between two vertices. Halfway between a vertex and SOMETHING. Consider the middle empty triangle. What would that something have to be in order to land inside it? It would have to be outside the triangle.

    • @markstoner3786
      @markstoner3786 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Andrew Pearce exactly what I was thinking. Those areas are empty because they are impossible to reach with the given restraints.

    • @MrDannyDetail
      @MrDannyDetail 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472 Maybe it would have to be outside the triangle, but that is allowed and possible according to what he said.

  • @JoshLewa
    @JoshLewa 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my second favorite video after the sum of all natural numbers video series. So interesting!

  • @hashimali4806
    @hashimali4806 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    your videos always leave me stunned!!

  • @jimmorrison6177
    @jimmorrison6177 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Interesting

  • @hingheng1234
    @hingheng1234 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this is crazy

  • @giulianotomasantelo3145
    @giulianotomasantelo3145 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    MINDBLOWING. Great video! really gives some perspective on how evolution (a random event) was able to generate complex things.

  • @RajNegi
    @RajNegi 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This blew my mind. Thanks for this.

  • @Radar_of_the_Stars
    @Radar_of_the_Stars 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    So close to the triforce, but yet so far

    • @calvinscheuerman
      @calvinscheuerman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Sierpinski's triangle is actually made up of an *infinite* number of Triforces.
      *Infinite triforce = pretty cool.*
      (Also probably a nintendo-core band name.)

    • @Radar_of_the_Stars
      @Radar_of_the_Stars 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cool!

  • @LudwigvanBeethoven2
    @LudwigvanBeethoven2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We live in a simulation.
    A simulation where we live in.

  • @fCauneau
    @fCauneau 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible ! You make my day !! Thanks !!!

  • @simonmultiverse6349
    @simonmultiverse6349 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the Sierpinski gasket, there is a very simple way of proving that the central large triangle is always empty. You imagine that a point lies in that central triangle, i.e. it has started somewhere and it has gone half-way towards one of the points. Pick point A as an example. If we go half-way towards point A, and land in the central triangle, all you do is ask the question: WHERE DID WE START FROM? You will find that, if you land in the central triangle, you must have been outside the overall shape, in order to land inside that central triangle. Since the rules are that you always start inside the triangle, you can never get out of the triangle, therefore you will never land in that central triangle. Ergo, the central triangle is always empty.

  • @peterbutterjam97
    @peterbutterjam97 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Is this the sort of thing that's known as procedural generation?

    • @ferko28
      @ferko28 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yep.

    • @JackieChan173
      @JackieChan173 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      the only thing in common between all the things known as procedural generation is they go
      random numbers -> things

    • @EmanuelMay
      @EmanuelMay 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Nope, you don't even need random numbers for procedural generation. Just - as the name suggest - a procedure. Does not have to be random at all (can be deterministicly based on previous events for example) , but randomness can be quite useful.

  • @Varun2799
    @Varun2799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    illuminati confirmed

    • @fergusmaclachlan1404
      @fergusmaclachlan1404 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I was looking for this comment.

    • @georgeabreu6392
      @georgeabreu6392 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Varun Patil Only fools can deny us now! Illuminati! ∆∆∆

    • @alexakkers2859
      @alexakkers2859 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      George Abreu r

    • @Varun2799
      @Varun2799 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nimit Dave 😂😂

    • @yudhvirsingh9909
      @yudhvirsingh9909 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nimit Dave 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @HelpfulFlyingpig
    @HelpfulFlyingpig 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can’t describe how incredible this video is

  • @TheTechnoLocker
    @TheTechnoLocker 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my favourite kind of Numberphile video

  • @Vank4o
    @Vank4o 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Illuminati confirmed *queue X-Files theme*

  • @secret12392
    @secret12392 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What was the website used here?

    • @TotodileSmile3721
      @TotodileSmile3721 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Stormageddon +

    • @TheMathestar
      @TheMathestar 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      if you mean the software for that simulation, they're not using a website but the geometry program GeoGebra

  • @UnconventionalForexTrading
    @UnconventionalForexTrading 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Work! Application which makes sense in many fields!

  • @miksurankaviita
    @miksurankaviita 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best video from Numberphile for a while

  • @jyotishkaraychoudhury4762
    @jyotishkaraychoudhury4762 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    For the first time....
    I'm seeing that a video has not got any dislikes till now.
    (Right now, it has got 181 likes)

  • @explodingCR33P3R
    @explodingCR33P3R 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @sayanbiswas9094
    @sayanbiswas9094 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is arousing, literally arousing. Kudos Ben Sparks

  • @ravwind
    @ravwind 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is really interesting. Would love to see more on this subject!

  • @martinusny
    @martinusny 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    wow.....

  • @PlayTheMind
    @PlayTheMind 7 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    Chaos in "orderly" math?!
    I guess *the Earth really is flat* after all.

    • @achi5170
      @achi5170 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      die dice

    • @constanza86
      @constanza86 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I came to conclusion a few years back that chaos is a system and order is just quantifiable part of it.
      To reject chaos is to reject the opportunity to learn something new about things we already know.

    • @GregariousBant
      @GregariousBant 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yo, PlayTheMind! I love your channel, your videos are always so interesting!

    • @darraghmckane4016
      @darraghmckane4016 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      constanza86 neat.

    • @PlayTheMind
      @PlayTheMind 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      New Yorker : Thx! Very much appreciated

  • @hiimapop7755
    @hiimapop7755 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is actually mind-blowing for me.

  • @chrissalinas325
    @chrissalinas325 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Probably the coolest Numberphile video

  • @Farfetchd.
    @Farfetchd. 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    this just makes me think we really are in a 3d simulation made by 4d creatures. hold me. im scared.

    • @attalan8732
      @attalan8732 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nico Griffin Don't worry. Just because something natural is creepily mathematical doesn't mean we are in a computer program. It just means we don't understand. Our universe is amazing. Simple.

    • @Xerxes1337
      @Xerxes1337 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is no correlation between the two ideas.

  • @slartibartfast336
    @slartibartfast336 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Repeat after me: die is singular; dice is plural! die is singular; dice is plural!
    Keep doing that until you get it right.

    • @raykent3211
      @raykent3211 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Slarti Bartfast except for engineers, where a die is a tool to cut a thread on a rod and the plural is dies :)

    • @Roxfox
      @Roxfox 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      You still say it the same, so the mantra still works.

    • @felixroux
      @felixroux 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      dice can actually refer to single

    • @felixroux
      @felixroux 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      dice can actually refer to multiple as well, and what's with the weird punctuation?

  • @SK8fourL1F3
    @SK8fourL1F3 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    wasn't sure I would enjoy this video at the start but it turned out to be extremely interesting!

  • @mtmath1123
    @mtmath1123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, I hadn’t expected the pattern of fern at all. Amazing.

  • @CAMOTA17
    @CAMOTA17 7 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Great marijuana fractal

  • @SylvEdu
    @SylvEdu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Math is the language in which God spoke to create the universe.

    • @SylvEdu
      @SylvEdu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Atheists literally cannot help but spill their spaghetti all over the place. Calm down, fellas. Just scroll past it.

    • @calvinscheuerman
      @calvinscheuerman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spill their spaghetti? That is the best thing I've ever heard.

    • @SylvEdu
      @SylvEdu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      "He made a universe with very specific and structured rules, of course there's going to be an underlying pattern, even if the events within that universe appear random."
      6:00

    • @autodidactusplaysjrpgs7614
      @autodidactusplaysjrpgs7614 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Unverifiable hypothesis much?

    • @calvinscheuerman
      @calvinscheuerman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Come on, Autodidactus Communitati ; Don't spill your spaghetti.

  • @ilyano1511
    @ilyano1511 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    More chaos theory stuff please, the previous video with this guy was also awesome!

  • @vijaymohan1307
    @vijaymohan1307 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was expecting some ready links to Barnsley fern and related topics. Of course I will look it up now :) Amazing.

  • @aryankumarprasad1574
    @aryankumarprasad1574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Am the only one who feels creepy ?

  • @scrambo6182
    @scrambo6182 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    notification squaaaaad

  • @karatenfriendship
    @karatenfriendship 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    One the best videos on this great channel

  • @davidberthelot7165
    @davidberthelot7165 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is fascinating and mind blowing.

  • @SchamanetheSchamane
    @SchamanetheSchamane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That is not just amazing, it is absolutely crazy! To me there is no logical reason WHY this should happen.

    • @pfeifenheini
      @pfeifenheini 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No? Image where the point would have to be the step before it would reach one of the blank areas. ;)

    • @SchamanetheSchamane
      @SchamanetheSchamane 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Uh, this sounds interesting...

    • @AlexKnauth
      @AlexKnauth 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Treufuss: Oh I see it now! That's much simpler

    • @brandon2762
      @brandon2762 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The framing of this is totally misleading. Yes, the results are randomized, but the randomness is forced through constraints. Of course there is going to be a pattern.
      It definitely is interesting how nature forms patterns based on randomness but it isn't disturbing or spooky, that's just how it is.

    • @trequor
      @trequor 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sadly nobody on the internet seems to know what logic is anymore :/ I dont resent you for your lack of understanding, but I really wish people would stop misusing the word "logic"

  • @brandon2762
    @brandon2762 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The framing of this is totally misleading. Yes, the results are randomized, but the randomness is forced through constraints. Of course there is going to be a pattern.
    It definitely is interesting how nature forms patterns based on randomness but it isn't disturbing or spooky, that's just how it is.

    • @olauda
      @olauda 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think the fact that's how it is is what makes it disturbing or spooky to people.

  • @johnchancey3941
    @johnchancey3941 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Immediately liked at 3:16 - awesome stuff

  • @jingchuanshi2454
    @jingchuanshi2454 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The last bit about ferns is certainly fantastic and inspiring for the computer folks out there, myself included. A million upvotes I would like to give to this one, if possible.