Straight from me!

Sping Break officaly begins today for me! As a result of this I will be working on a couple new things to release after or durring spring break so stay tuned!

In Geometry on Friday we watched the following documentary on fractals. Now a fractal is a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry. It also repeats itself under several levels of magnification,and as a result is a shape that appears irregular at all scales of length.

After watching the documentary (which was made before I was born) I decided to try to create a fractal generator of my own!

First off I tried creating a simple generator of the equations numbers using the ti-84 keypad for my ti-nspire.

Now first off I was trying to do the fractal called the M-Set which has an equation of :

Z⇔Z^2+C

As a result I started programing for the ti 84 with the following code:


ClrHome
Prompt C
Prompt Z
CtrHome
While 1=1
Z^2+C→A
Disp A
A^2+C→Z
Disp Z
Pause
End


So What happens is 1. everything on the screen is cleared (a pet peeve of mine to have a clean screen at start of a program), then it asks what number you want for C and then which one for Z. It then clears the screen once again and then since 1=1 will never be false the program should keep running Z^2+C then displaying the answer, then solving A^2+C and then displaying that answer and repeating for ever it every time they presses the enter button. The program though produces the an overflow error because its number can not fill the screen. As a result I just modified it to stop every time the numbers get too big for the calculator:


ClrHome
Prompt C
Prompt Z
CtrHome
1e^(70)→Q
1→R
While R Z^2+C→A
Disp A
A^2+C→Z
Z→R
Disp Z
Pause
End


In the modified code the program this time runs until the numbers calculated are too big for the calculator.

Here is a sample output of my program

C=1

Z=2

5

26

677

458330

2.100663888e11

4.412788775e22

1.947270477e45

3.79186231e90

Done

As of right now I am still working on a script to graph a fractal but I am working on it right now. I am also working on a php script which will produce a fractal in an image on the fly (that one is almost done just some testing left).

(Please note my calculator has the following settings under mode as different settings my get you different answers:

Normal

Float

Degree

Func

Connected

Sequential

Real

Full

)

Basically what this is a poem that I had to do as an assignment for poetry class. The assignment was to create a narrative  poem that took a news article and retold the story not by telling but showing (suppose to invoke emotion unlike the news article does.)  So thats the assignment as simple as I can put it but there was some more to it but oh well here is the poem and tell me what you think:

A tall slender man rose from the chair,

His brows were thick and his face stern,

Upon a panel he worked with care

Not even feeling the breeze in his hair.

The sun was high and blood sugar low,

Anticipation, built for the rocket far off,

A device wailed, and inside quaked his soul;

Sparks lit around, while not seen was lift off.

In the control room arose the flame

A snake coiled around the worker’s breath,

A malfunction was this fire’s blame

And now he was surrounded by death.

The stern man arose to fight the snake,

He rushed to the switch upon the wall,

His flight, immune to this quake 

The lever pulled, down came the water maul.

The maul fell, striking its wrath,

Slithering on was the snake through the fog

Until it was hit by the maul’s rage bath;

Dead was the beast, only remained smog.

The stern man crawled to the panel,

Struggling, he pulled himself on the chair,

The error was found, while sweat ran his flannel,

From one key stroke fixed, that caused the flare.

The night fell, silence engulfed the land,

A light turned on, slowly creeping up

The great rocket showed in the sand,

Ahmadinejadsaid said, show its stuff.

Rising higher, higher into the sky,

While the empire watched their flight

The rocket reached orbit with its cry,

The stern man announced to the land, their new might.

* Note my poem was over the Iranian Satellite Launch and there isn’t much plot line to that so I made up the fire *