On
the structure page, we have a septagon (shape of 7 sides, more often
called a heptagon, but since septagon has actually been used in RRL,
this fits in perfectly as an official Frangles terms, as Frangles terms
already mangle english enough as it is) with little animated circles of
glowing dots meant to represent incredibly more complex things in our
heads. They are mostly there to say, "Wow, we have the technology
to develop animated .gif files! 14- dimensional holograms aren't
far behind!" It was of course supposed to actually tell you
something major and complex about the saga's structure (and include
holographic equations and $@!#), but turned out as most everything else
on the site is: simplistic, nonholographic, and totally devoid of the
self- doctorate level equations governing Frangles' future
blueprints. (That was a trick for you to catch. I said
future _blueprints_ implying we don't really have any at the
moment. This is of course false. Was that funny? Oh,
Squish can correct it later.)
In fact with it's bright neon
yellow exterior, one almost might make the comparison of the current
frangles.com and the sickening plethora of For Dummies books out
there. (Note I said sickening _plethora_ rather than sickening
_franchise_, which is just a criticism of their semi- monopoly rather
than the intrinsic content of the books. I'm learning to poke fun
without insulting anyone stupider than me. It's difficult,
homies.) Or maybe the mass marketability of Best Buy. Or
perhaps the simplistic feel of the Hitchhikers DVD menu from which
Frangles was practically ripped off from pixel for pixel. [Oh,
I'm sorry, "subconsciously inspired by"... can you feel the rancid
animosity between whoever's writing this and whoever they feel
animosity towards on this particular issue? I sure can, @#!s.]
Now
in saying everything on frangles.com is very simplistic, we don't mean
to insult the intelligence of anyone who already finds the site damn
confusing. In fact if you don't find it confusing, especially if
you've read more than two or three pages, you should be shot for being
smarter than us and our freers.^1 It's just that from our frangle
(with the exception of our clueless intern, of course...oh, I'm sorry
Jet; apologies; maybe if you actually didn't flunk math every semester
I'd be kinder), Frangles is bafflingly more vast and complex that is
currently fleshed out online. Over history, many artists observe
that the worlds or art inside their heads are difficult to squish into
a tangible medium and relay to someone else. Frangles is like
that, especially since it's a collective work, and especially because
we're obsessed with tangibilizing it and relaying it to the furthest
extdent we're capable of achieving. (Or maybe a little less than
that. It's hard to tell.)
Anyway, here are some seemingly
more complex fractals that include this basic septagon shape. (I
say "seemingly" because the original septagon is just as detailed and
complex if you zoom in to its edges. In fact the original
/structure septagon took significant time to render, all for that
detail around the edges without which you would see it and think, "eh,
now that looks low-quality", whether consciously or sub- or un-).
These were fascinating to bump into, as we weren't exploring anything
we knew to be septagonal or contained septagonal shapes. Further
fascinating, the The /structure page septagon is perfectly
mathematically symmetric, while the others seem just a random slop of
gemetrical $#!@... Metaphorically, this should relate to Frangles
just like anything else that doesn't seem to relate to Frangles relates
to Frangles.
Now we don't just mean _apparently_ mathematically
symmetrical (in the way you can visually see here), we mean the
symmetry of the equations generating them. The current /structure
septagon (the blue on solid yellow) has very, very, very simple (and
centered) coordinates, like you might draw a circle at (x-1, y-1) in
geometry on an x/y (../z/etc) graph. The others are like drawing
a pseudo- semi- hypercube using the middlemost digits of pi on an
inverse abacus in dimensions several backwards from the infinith.
(I think that made sense. Chip can check it later.)
Note
that the "simple" heptagon can be cut into half, then re-constructed by
copying that half and flipping it over. However, it can't be cut
vertically on a standard computer monitor because this doesn't make an
even disection. Sometimes we cheat and render portions of
fractals (such as the left or right half of this one) and then copy and
paste things, but there is only one way we can cheat here: to render
either the right or left vertical half, then flip and paste (or paste
then flip, of course, depending on your preference of art program and
methods). There is nothing else than can be done without having
to rotate some portion at a nonexact angle, requiring tedious and
perhaps even impossible to exactly achieve calculation, because the
number 7 is odd/prime.
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