Flying through a Fractal Tree Nebula
1,298 views · Published 3 August 2011 · 1:01 · Indexed 11 October 2026
Channel: Paul Nathan · 2011 · Education
Point sprites representing stars are placed at the location of the tree nodes and I fly through them ;-). Music is my own creation using Reason 4, please listen with headphones, ;-). I hoped to do this sort of thing for real, but alas I realise it's probably not going to happen in my lifetime, so coding it and doing it myself on computer is the next best thing - if only we had the matrix interface.... Branch cone 90, scale factor 0.85, level 10. Having a scale factor less than unity gave the nebula some clustering, rather than just an almost homogeneous cloud without any spatial structure. So there you go, the universe could be a fractal tree.... the galaxies, stars and planets are the nodes, and the space in between is represented by the branches connecting the nodes. Since the tree structure is a visual representation of the computer memory storing the node array, then perhaps our universe is also residing in a memory bank.... are we a computer simulation?
