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Explain this.

 
 
Rage
07:44 / 15.05.03
 
 
Rage
10:30 / 15.05.03
I mean, like, what are the mechanisms that make this interesting display possible? How does that work? I'm not being silly about the board itself, I'm wondering what it is that makes supposed internet whoopsies look so funky and patternlike. Does it have something to do with de chaos stuff?
 
 
w1rebaby
18:26 / 15.05.03
technically speaking, I imagine that would be a failure of the CSS parser to recognise a "norepeat" when applied to the background property, or the norepeat not being in there in the first place

generally speaking, it will depend on the code... if it uses recursion and fucks up, it can generate some very pretty things, and there'll probably be a recursive element in the rendering somewhere

I used to like watching Netscape 6 build complex pages. It would do it gradually, showing each step, so you'd get a simple box which would then start growing cells within cells within cells until it blossomed up into a full-blown page. Like cell division in a growing organism. That shit's less fun now I'm on broadband and use a decent browser and so many things use CSS positioning anyway.
 
 
grant
18:30 / 15.05.03
I think you're asking why math makes things pretty.

I don't think I can answer that except to say that math makes things pretty.

You find it a lot in music -- Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys guy, famous fractured musical genius) says he composed some songs by just looking at his hands on the keyboard and making geometric patterns. It works.
 
 
tom-karika nukes it from orbit
22:20 / 16.05.03
Well, humans do like symmetry and pattern, and math tends to make symmetrical, patterned images.
 
  
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