Chaos Theory And Fractal Geometry By Rhonda Roland Shearer

According to Edward Lorenz (founder of the Chaos Theory) chaos is the science of surprises, of the nonlinear and the unpredictable. It teaches us to expect the unexpected. Chaos Theory deals with nonlinear things that are effectively impossible to predict or control, like turbulence, weather, the stock market, our brain states, and so on. (Lorenz 1995: 187)

Upon hearing the word chaos, one's mind usually imagines a place of total disorder and confusion. This is the usual meaning of the word in normal usage. However, there has been a literal explosion of scientific interest in chaos and how to control it or at least understand it. Understanding chaos would undoubtedly be of great benefit to mankind. By making use of this total disorder and

For me geometry is the most basic concern for artists. Roland Shearer quotes poet Apollinaire where he explains, “geometry is to the plastic arts what is to the art of the writer”. This is not to say that artists are geometers, because most of us are far from it (Shearer 1992:143).
According to Roland Shearer (1992) the release of non-Euclidean geometries at the end of the 19th Century copied the announcement of art movements occurring at that time, which included Cubism, Constructivism, Orphism, De Stijl, Futurism, Suprematism and Kinetic art. Most of the artists who were involved in these beginnings of Modern art were directly working with the new ideas from non-Euclidean geometry or were at least exposed to it – artists such as Picasso, Braque, Malevich, Mondrian and Duchamp. To explain human-created geometries (Euclidean, non-Euclidean), it is a representation of human-made objects and technology (Shearer

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James Gleick was quoted by Yeongmahn You, where he stated that “fractal means self-similarity; self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern”. In other words self-similarity is a repetition of the detail that present from the smallest to the largest scale, therefor creating a hidden pattern of order that has structure and regularity (Gleick 1987:103).
As per Yeongmahn You, designing for specific guidelines that students must follow is unnecessary, since flexible and complex acts can be created through the iteration of just a few principles or key operations. The theoretical effects of chaos theory for designing and developing instructions can also be drawn from the minimalist approach that is suggested by Carroll who assumed that “human problem solving is neither confined to nor always well served by hierarchical control” (1993:79).
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