#iterate fractal

[foxofanequinox]

Creation of a Relic // Corruption of Sunai

i've spent. a while working on this. i love it so much. tfw a simple colour study becomes a full piece.

[emotionalcorn]

This is about Iterate Fractal and Sunai 10000%

[tallshps]

#take some acetaminophen and get to explaining because this sounds genius

ok well it maybe could be genius if I had a physical copy of the book I could flip through for exact references ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so I remember on my first read I was thrown off by the number of twists the story takes; the threat changes a few times based on new information revealed, and there are several times a character or thing dies only to be not-quite-dead or transformed in some way. it feels like the first third or so is one book, and then it exponentially gets twistier and our understanding of the laws of this world shift a little.

(what is a person? a relic? an archive? a consciousness? they're all the same and not the same depending on what point in the plot spiral you're at)

These moments are paced closer and closer together toward the end of the book - which is usually how tension works in a good story lol but I specifically mean these acts are driven by little "spirals" of flashbacks and introspection we get that explain something about present Sunai and push his story forward - which ends where he began, physically and maybe spiritually).

I am too hungover to explain this right now but I just realised that Archive Undying is narratively arranged in a fractal

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

just so we 're clear

[anarthursworld]

The Frondity Substack explores the connotations of a fractal universe. The link takes you to pages 8 To 15 containing The Journey Begins post of the Frondity publication.

[local-iterator-tether]

[LIVE BROADCAST] - PRIVATE Eight Whispering Streams, Clementine Fractals EWS: Has there been any more news on Shining Clouds? Sorry to bother you, but I haven't had a chance to keep up with the public channels as of late. CF: There were some rumors going around about the legitimacy of Shining Clouds' reawakening, but his structure recently expelled a deluge of stale water. CF: I'd wager that circulating water is enough evidence for this case. EWS: Well then… what now? Has she said anything yet? It's been a few Cycles already since you first brought this news to my attention. CF: It seems that in the hundreds of Cycles of her stasis, Shining Clouds has accumulated a multitude of minor hindrances which are currently occupying her attention. CF: But I'm sure we will hear from him soon. EWS: I hope so. It will be good to hear from her and distant others once more.

[marcosoropoet]

Neo-Retro/Artisanal #28

Digital/Kaleidoscopic iteration

Marcos Oro

[knotty-et-al]

[Twisting the turning - re-wiring the liberated self]

[2023/08/30]

[approachtheancientkeep]

[indigofoxpaws]

thinking about this post again after reading The Archive Undying

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

I think they should make a fractal pattern firework, but not the bullshit fake cringe finite number of iterations kind of fractal. Fractals have a finite perimeter, so it would only permanently ruin a very small area with the increasingly intense light and sound and heat.

[proustian-dream]

Already my body was inside thought. The strangeness of the image, my body, the girl, her inescapable maladroitness -always leaking, bruising, stinking, lusting- originates the infraction that thought must be. For the girl is an infraction in thought. She simply needs to annotate the breach that she is as her reading destroys the purity of philosophy.

Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

[sevenswansinatrenchcoat]

Hello everyone should go read archive undying just so they can come and see the genius of this post. So fucking good I love it I'm obsessed I'm screaming fuck this is good

iterate fractal

you agree

[local-iterator-tether]

[LIVE BROADCAST] - PRIVATE Eight Whispering Streams, Clementine Fractals CF: Have you heard the news? EWS: What is there to hear? I cannot spend much time away from repairing my own auxiliary pump seals. CF: I am… aware. But! There's rumors circulating in the central communications channel that Shining Clouds has begun functioning again! EWS: How is that possible? I thought her structure went silent Cycles ago after that drought. CF: Maybe he was just lingering in stasis? Here, I can share an image captured by a distant iterator's overseers. [ATTACHED FILE] EWS: Quite distant, judging by the grain, but you're right. There is plenty of steam from his structure to indicate functionality. Has she sent any requests? CF: No, we haven't heard anything from her directly. We are all hoping that he is aware of the times.

[arbieroo-art]

A "Wallpaper" iterative map fractal. The first 50,000 iterations are shown. An infinite number of such fractals exist, each with unique values for three parameters.

[marcosoropoet]

Neo-Retro/Artisanal #17

Digital/Kaleidoscopic iteration

Marcos Oro