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Visual Exploration of Complex Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rock-hammer-for-scale dept.

jweebo writes "Seed magazine has a story on complexity, and how it can be visually represented with fascinating results. From the article: 'Complexity is everywhere. It's a structural and organizational principle that reaches almost every field imaginable, from genetics and social networks to food webs and stock markets ...Collected here are a few of the many intriguing, and often beautiful, images that illustrate how the whole is more than the sum of its parts.'"

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  1. Wow by Eightyford · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, a winamp visualization.

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  2. Let me just say... by The+Living+Fractal · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have a book, about a thousand pages long, by a certain author of a certain mathematics program (who I will not name here) that basically says the same thing.

    Translation for the 1000+ pages:

    "omGz)R patterns pwnz joO!"

    Really though, the guy goes on and on about his 'new kind of science' and after a thousand pages gets pretty much nowhere.

    But hey, it was complex, man! Serious!

    TLF

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    1. Re:Let me just say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      often abreviated to 'WANKS'

  3. Let me guess... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've been reading "Fractal Geometry of Nature" by Benoit Mandelbrot. Very nice illustrations and the section on how fractals all started and another on fractal dimensions were good, but otherwise the book was far too vague and had few proofs. This demonstrates Heisenberg's Writing Principle, which states that you can either know bout a topic or write about it, but not at the same time.

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    1. Re:Let me guess... by jthayden · · Score: 2, Funny
      Heisenberg's Writing Principle, which states that you can either know bout a topic or write about it, but not at the same time.


      Where does this leave reading about a topic?

  4. Tree of Strife. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ""Seed magazine has a story on complexity, and how it can be visually represented with fascinating results."

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  5. Wow! This is Unix! by Speare · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, this is Unix! I know this!!
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  6. Re:Information Architecture & Prefuse by thrillseeker · · Score: 2, Funny

    The article is a little short, I would have liked more more more!! :-)

    ...with a rebel yell?