#Fractal Zoom

[guerrilla-operator]

Brian Eno // Fractal Zoom

Slow Lie Endure Recline In a separate time On a different plane

#brian eno #fractal zoom #nerve net #experimental #electronic #tunes #audio #favorite songs ever #Bandcamp

[rastronomicals]

8:39 AM EST December 24, 2023:

Brian Eno - "Fractal Zoom" From the album Nerve Net (September 1, 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: The Vision Thing

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#Brian Eno #Nerve Net #Fractal Zoom

[artificial-mess]

if yall ever bored just watch fractal zoom videos

they're so entertaining for like no reason

or just zoom into one yourself with something like xaos

#boredom #txt #txtpost #fractal #fractal zoom

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also given that the logic of said superiority authoriority is an entitlement to deny someone's personhood & use them as an object for your purposes, from obviously getting to direct what they must do & can't do, to enjoying whatever gratification from lashing out / demeaning which is also going to serve as an affirming exercise in authority when one can do that from an insulated elevated place....a crucial part of whatever form of this violence, from the most nanoscopic triangle in the sierpiński triangle pyramid scheme hierarchy, to the hypothetical largest (zoom in or out to whatever degree: the same shit also), being that indeed the superior parties need the deserved insulation from any Consequence to exerting their superior status, including indeed from having to witness the consequences For the "inferior" parties, such as whatever externalizations of suffering they recognize as such, which either (a) need to be put away (b) are manipulative performances or otherwise exaggerated (e.g. being a pussy / not even having the sense to realize how little suffering they're Really experiencing) or (c) can be fun to witness if you decide you enjoy that as an affirmation of power as per your ability to completely detach from any avoidance of causing pain, harming for its own sake, b/c you Can

all which is to frame how Interesting it is that after all those moments of going "well, they keep bothering with reaction shots of winston noticeably feeling hurt & expressing it, sometimes also verbally. it's like it could be setting up something" it set up Nothing; while once again just like has been done dozens of times a scene just Ends on winston being rejected &/or hurt, no resolution then, no resolution ever, and in the case of 7x03 was so significant an attack that just like in 4x11 when mafee gets to take out his own Loyalty Insecurity on winston while everyone else hangs around in tacit to overt approval, everyone just leaves the room & we get winston staying behind in the Most distant position aaand scene's over! thread's over! david levien get back here after you Liked that 4x12 livetweet of mine pointing out "so see & winston was right anyways??" like....that is: we are given the Perspective of someone who is also now Leaving winston behind, thus immune to the consequences of however that treatment could actually affect him or how he might struggle to deal with that now (who cares! the answer is: Alone) like Whatever, next time we see him he's completely fine now. and i'm just so happening to think that all the little moments of getting to see winston wither & withdraw & etc in reaction to being shitted on was also us being granted the perspective of Gratification that he's punished for speaking or existing or whatever, without it ever going anywhere or mattering beyond that instant. we too are the ones who surely get to relentlessly bully the autistic person & damn if we don't at least enjoy someone getting to go off the rails restoring their ego by doing absolutely whatever they want to him, which just so happens to be perfectly aligned with getting him Back In Line. pull yourself together winston! the only consequences you're experiencing we wanna deal with are the ones where you give us the algorithm we decided we want, actually. and now let's look across the rest of the season where the consequences for wags for being this way (or anyone else for standing by, ready to benefit, with philip bafflingly declaring as well how actually it was brutal in a good way) is approximately fuckall even as of course nobody's pretending he's one of the personal growth guys out here: rian is though, and didn't have to "grow" out of abusing winston or thinking that was fine & good or that of course she's inherently superior! and in the end we have more affection and interest for the Epic Asshole than their Cringe Targets

#yeah once again really appreciate being given the Rewards of that Fantasy of pwning these losers #we get to Glimpse winston going :/ :( b/c that's how we know he was aptly punished for trying to act like he's a fellow person #when we're grabbing his head forcing him back into place in a bigger way it's more important we then dust our hands off & Leave #winston leaving May be that eventual acknowledgment of consequence for w/e scraps of sympathy (pity) billions has for him #but it's made into an episode abt wags w/marked Little care for winston's role & once again Just A Fun Power Trip! for us viewers too! #thoughts amped up from the harmonic resonance of a more zoomed out triangle in the self similar fractal of pyramid scheme hierarchy.... #the inferior may be beset w/mass death & violence but um my nice dinner out please?? same No Consequences For The Superior logics #prince shits on winston ep 1? cool! we're giving him a chance. shits on rian ep 12? whoa! whadda hell blunosaur....hang on a minute.... #winston billions #how gracious to align us as viewers with the people comfortably shitting on those Beneath Them for kicks & status #and ''pitying'' the Inferior parties doesn't disrupt your superiority so don't worry about that #rian talking to winston like a dog & pitching right in for hurting him via ''he wasn't ever worth listening to But here ya go'' as Pity.... #taylor moved away from their being willing to hire him; listen to him; even At All step in even a Tiny bit to insulate him.... #towards wanting to forever ignore him & express contempt & tell rian the pitying is Too Much & be right there w/wags in 7x03...? #guess that was just like ''well they can't possibly have an arc of keeping up Any supportiveness / basic recognition of this loser'' #but they also don't have to interact w/their own willingness to Insistence on being awful to him either #wasn't even the consequence of [once again we need his epic output...but have treated him like shit?] nah just took it from him :) #anyways; riled. riling times #sure having plenty of firsthand experience with a Refusal to accept like responsibility of produced suffering #there's plenty of room for distress; particularly if translated into irritation/anger; as dismissable to ''haha funny. now anyways'' #then there's the option of Resenting whatever evident pain. you can't Tyrannically impose that consequence on Me!!! why i oughta #see also the tyranny of winston Speaking (demanding listening) Being Present (demanding navigation of that) having wants; feelings (NO).... #or you're at more of a loss? you ofc simply get to literally/figuratively walk away :) turning away from winston. ending the scene. shrug #anyways winston is inherently an Other who just so happens to deserve to be Our punching bag & inferior in life yippee wahoo #and by ''just so happens'' we mean clearly Deserves it based on nothing abt what Consequences his actions do or don't have lol lmao #his deserving this inferiority is something more Inherent about him okay lol lmao XD a sentiment unchallenged all 5 seasons he's here #how fun every time rian starts talking to winston with insults & punishment Prompted by his audacity in existing loserishly #what a rollicking episode as wags decides he'll prove his superiority over someone today & everyone claps as he assaults winston. nice! #it was so essential b/c now we can Take his coding w/o having to interact w/him (save 1 meeting just w/sacker!) cool!!! good!!! #lord even knows Where Do I Start Where Do I End It well anywhere & nowhere always & never. the lil topic of ableism & abuse

[chemicahs]

im insane

#attempting to animate a fractal zoom by hand #ive always wanted to do this #sludge

[qt-thunder]

Q.T. Thunder

Rubber Reduction Stamp

Ink on Paper (8.5" x 11")

2023

#art #stamps #printmaking #fractal #ink on paper #Sierpinski #triangle #zoom in #zoom out

[sheilamurrey]

Integrating the Spirals: Why I share Heart and Soul

Getting to the heart and soul of, Integrating the Spirals™ and why I share so much. If you would rather listen instead of read, play the audio: Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening wherever you are in the world. Why do I share sooo much??? I’m not trying to change anyone! I’ve been there After all the counseling, Coda, AA (Al-Anon), Nar-Anon, Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT), Emotional…

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#Color #de-program #empath #first session #forward motion #fractal of Omniscience #frequency #heart #I see your soul #integration #join me on zoom #love #peace to the heart #sensitive #sharing #Soul #sunshine

[msexcelfractal]

Mandelbrot Set: Iterations 1–9.

Displayed in Microsoft Excel by a four way circular reference:

C3=COMPLEX(C$2,-$B3) JN3=IF(JN274>=3,C274,IMSUM(C3,IMPRODUCT(C274,C274))) C274=IF($A$1,JN3,C3) JN274=IMABS(C274)

Each of the four formulas is filled into 72900 cells to make 270px images. The first grid picks a complex number c = x+yi. The second grid iterates Mandelbrot's rule: c is in the Mandelbrot set if and only if the sequence zₙ₊₁ = zₙ² + c does not diverge. The third grid makes the previous iteration's zₙ₊₁ into the current iteration's zₙ (unless the pause button is set in cell A1 - then this grid reverts to z₀ = c.) The fourth grid takes the absolute value of zₙ so I can show you its magnitude with conditional formatting!

At the top of the post is the fourth grid in iterations z₁ through z₉ with -2<x<1 and -1.5<y<1.5. The ranges for x and y are set dynamically so I can zoom into the fractal arbitrarily :)

Here are the red, green and blue locations from my earlier survey of the Mandelbrot set via its Julia sets.

Or, you can peruse the rest of my Excel fractal art.

#math #fractal #microsoft excel #my art #mandelbrot #mandelbrot set #mathblr #effort post

[albino-parakeet]

I have no clue what Japan's school curriculum is or if/when they would ever bring up fractals in a course.

But I keep thinking about Yoshiki opening his textbook and it's just a jumpscare for him, since 'Hikaru's' insides are represented as such.

(Sits Yoshiki in front of a Mandelbrot zoom sequence to see what happens)

#the summer hikaru died #hikaru ga shinda natsu spoilers #I'm just rambling #Who knows if he'll even live that long... #Anyways fractals are cool and everywhere in nature. #I think the one that's in the manga is a Julia from a Mandelbrot fractal #I only have surface level knowledge of Fractals. I am not good at math that involves imaginary numbers. #Sorry to my Sky followers for posting about this horror manga…

[rhodesmusic]

jesus christ impaled on a wednesday i hate hate HATE it when christianity is brought into mathematics. people pushing their agenda by saying shit like "this beautiful mathematical thing proves the existence of GOD" or "GOD made math and we're just discovering it". that is SO fucking rancid for so many reasons and half the time the people that say those kinds of things hold math in a purely qualitative sence in their mind, thinking that because they got a mandelbrot zoom in their reccomended they eat breathe and shit math out their asshole on the spiritual level

no matter how hard our education systems bastardize the subject, compressing their concepts into a pristine meaninglessness to cull the young person's imagination across the land, nor how well their nouns verbs and adjectives describe what we see in the universe, mathematics at it's heart is a form of SELF EXPRESSION. nothing, NOTHING I SAY in this world we live in would be as FUCKING PSYCHOTIC as to suggest us to dwell over how a bunch of IMAGINARY IDEAS relate to one another along patterns and symmetries, other than OURSELVES. we started doing math because it offers a kind of fulfillment unlike any other artform. the difference between mathematics and other arts is that our culture doesn't see it as one.

mathematics is not about facts, or even worse, about "rules", but rather about the IDEAS that went into drawing such conclusions. similarly, the only thing more beautiful than math's polyhedra, infinitely intricate fractal shapes, and other pictures such as the ones abraham and jacob here put in their thumbnails, are the MADE UP IDEAS that constitute them, ideas that we have thought up for no good reason other than we find doing so lovely. wonderful. fulfilling and completing.

if some BRICK LICKER named EZEKIEL went out to an art fair and proclaimed with their righteous ass vocal cords, "all these paintings, all these works of art, all of these were drawn by GOD and HERE'S WHY", they'd rightfully be told to go off and HUFF DICK, but when it's mathematics it passes with nodding heads because our culture doesn't see math as any kind of self-expression, instead as a bunch of statements and sedentary pictures to worship, bend over, and take cock for to achieve some higher level of virtuosity.

"but how can the Mandelbrot set have infinite complexity as you zoom into it, that has to be god right there!!!" perhaps if you ever pondered the distinguishing complex numbers, how recursive processes ballet with its algebraic structure, the geometry unfolding into chaos along an infinitesimal boundary, all things that DON'T ACTUALLY FUCKING EXIST IN OUR WORLD BUT WILL STILL BE THOUGHT OF FOR OUR SAKES, LEST WE LET THE IDEA GO COLD AS WE SHIVER IN THE ABSENCE OF THE WARMTH OF ITS SIMPLE CHARM, then you wouldn't resort to implementing an omnipotent figure in order to fulfill your inclination to have the wonder be explained by anything besides the creativity of humans.

oh, but questioning the words of the bible? now that's sacrilege.

HOLY SHIT.

#one thing that im too infuriated to mull over right now. im christian. my fatherly figure has made me attend the catholic mass once a week #for the entirety of my life thus far. im not writing this to diss the religion (despite it entailing dissing). however you find beauty #and or dignity in god and the bible. let respect and peace and love be found in that but please for the love of daddy g and little j dont #use that to indoctrinate mathematics. ill put mulch in your shoes and plant pride flags in your lawn if you do #math #mathematics #rant #rant post #christianity #mathblr #rhodes math #rage

[rastronomicals]

4:15 AM EST November 24, 2023:

Brian Eno - "Fractal Zoom" From the album Nerve Net (September 1, 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: The Vision Thing

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#Brian Eno #Nerve Net #Fractal Zoom

[talos-stims]

zooming in on a fractal tree | source

#talos gifs #stim gifs #stim #weird stim #math #fractals #3d printed #infinite loop #perfect loop #clusters #angels #black #white #red #green #gif ids #id in alt

[davidfarland]

Strong Act Structure Creates Stronger Stories

by @septembercfawkes​ 

In storytelling structure, people use the term “act” rather broadly and vaguely. Most in the writing community break stories down into three acts: beginning, middle, and end. But if you asked many writers what an act actually is, they would probably give you blank stares.

Despite acts being key structural units in stories, they don’t get a lot of attention.

And when they do, they are often treated simply as containers to fill with beats from a beat sheet.

Luckily, the basics of acts aren’t too hard to grasp, if you already know the basics of structure.

And once you grasp acts, your whole story will have not only better structure, but better pacing and better direction.

So let’s unpack the act!

As mentioned, those who usually give the act any mind, are often following a “beat sheet.” This is a list of key moments (or “beats”) that are supposed to happen in a specific order, and usually, at a specific time, to make a story more satisfying (put simply). Beat sheets can be very helpful and very effective. Two of the most popular are Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder and Vogler’s version of The Hero’s Journey. Another common structural approach is 7 Point Story Structure.

Often beat sheets will be separated into acts, so if you are familiar with them, you may have some understanding of what’s supposed to happen in each act.

If you aren’t familiar with them, that’s fine too.

Basic Story Structure

I’m going to explain acts from the bottom up–and we’ll get back to the beat sheets for those who like to “beat” out their stories.

At the most basic level, the structure of a story (almost) always looks like this:

It has a rising action, climax, and falling action.

If we zoomed in a little more, there would be an inciting incident. This is the turn in the beginning of the story that kicks off the main plotline–it often appears as an opportunity or a problem for the protagonist.

Charlie Bucket finding a golden ticket.

Peter Parker getting bit by a radioactive spider.

Boo coming into Monstropolis in Monsters Inc.

These are all examples of inciting incidents.

From there, the story escalates, more or less, until it gets to the climax, where the main conflict between the protagonist and antagonist hits a peak and gets resolved. This creates a turn that then leads to the falling action.

That’s basic structure.

Basic Structure and Structural Units

But it’s not only basic structure for a story as a whole, it’s also basic structure for just about any solid structural unit. Ideally, scenes should have this structure, sequences should have this structure, and yes, acts should have this structure.

Each unit fits inside the bigger unit, like a Russian nesting doll, or a fractal.

The difference is that, the smaller the structural unit, the smaller the impact.

So the climax of a single scene will be smaller than the climax of a sequence. (This term isn’t used very often, but a sequence is a string of related scenes, that don’t fill up a whole act.)

The climax of a sequence will be smaller than the climax of an act.

And the climax of an act will be smaller than the climax of the overarching story.

Basic Act Structure

Nonetheless, other than the story as a whole, the act is the biggest structural unit. This means each act should crest into a big turn in the story.

It’s not just that the story has one major peak–a turning point–at the end.

It should have several big peaks along the way.

It should also have several “valleys” along the way.

While the overarching story is escalating in general overall, it still has rises and falls in each act.

Most commonly, people view stories as having three acts.

This means the structure will look somewhat like this:

It’s also equally common to split the middle act in half. Frequently, in the middle of the second act, there is a major turn, called the midpoint (you may have heard of it). If this moment is major, it’s often more helpful to picture the structure with the second act split into two, something like this:

One may arguably call this a four-act story, but to keep with the most commonly used terms, it’s probably better to call these pieces, Act II, Part I & Act II, Part II.

When you look at this structure, you may realize something . . . there is no saggy middle! There is also no boring beginning, or lackluster end.

This is because there is a rise, peak, and fall within each act (and arguably two in Act II).

Frequently, people divide these act pieces into quarters. Not every writer likes using percentages, but it’s the best and easiest way to indicate when and where something in a story should typically happen–so we’ll use them.

Act I: 0 – 25%

Act II, Part I: 25 – 50%

Act II, Part II: 50 – 75%

Act III: 75% – 100%

Please note that the percentages aren’t laws; they are more like guidelines. But we need the guidelines to even have a proper conversation about acts. Once we understand the guidelines, we can play with variations for different effects, but we need to lay a foundation first to get anywhere.

The beautiful thing about this, though, is that you know you need to hit a peak in each of these quarters.

Now, occasionally, writers will cut some or all of the falling action off the structural unit. This is rare for the overarching story (but it does happen!). It is more common for smaller structural units. So don’t panic if all your units don’t have the “fall” into the valley.

Acts and Structural Pacing

The point is, you have peaks and valleys.

And it’s helpful to have them in the proper places. Why? Because this is what controls structural pacing.

Pacing is more than word count. In fact, pacing more closely links to structure. When the structure of any given unit is solid, the pacing will almost always be exactly what you need. The exception to this is when you are looking at the lines themselves–that’s when things like word count become more important.

Generally speaking, solid structure = solid pacing.

This is why when you understand acts, you’ll be less likely to have pacing problems in beginnings, middles, or ends (no saggy middles!).

Pacing gets tighter the closer it gets to the peaks, simply because the plot itself is becoming more intense.

Then it gets more leisurely and loose in the valleys, as we fall and/or begin the next climb.

Each Act’s Climax

Act I

So, when you are writing the beginning, you know you need to be climbing toward a big turn, which will hit before the middle.

What is this Act I climax?

Well, depending on what approach you are using, people will call it different things. (This is where those of you who are familiar with beat sheets pull yours out.)

In Save the Cat! This is the “Break into Two” beat.

In Vogler’s Hero’s Journey, this is “Crossing the Threshold.”

In 7 Point Story Structure, this is “Plot Point 1” (sometimes alternatively called “Plot Turn 1”).

If you aren’t familiar with any of these terms, that’s fine, but know Act I has a climactic turn.

This climactic turn works by locking the protagonist with the main conflict. It is typically marked by the protagonist’s choice to step forward, through a “Door of No Return” (i.e. Crossing the Threshold) or a “Point of No Return” (i.e. plot point). It’s what “breaks” the story into Act II.

The protagonist definitively chooses to go forward on the journey of the primary plotline. This is then usually followed by a transitional segment, that takes us into the “valley.” . . . There is a lot more I could go into here, but it’s beyond the scope of this article, so let’s move on.

The falling action is often a reaction segment–where the character is reacting to what just changed at the peak. Once the character has at least some sense of their situation, they usually start “climbing” toward a current goal (rising action).

Act II, Part I

Near the halfway mark of the story, you typically hit a climactic peak again. A big turn. People most frequently call this the “midpoint.” It usually involves the protagonist gaining new, important information that helps him move forward more aggressively, or rather, actively, against the antagonist. But it may be marked by a big victory or failure for him too.

The point is, there is a turning peak.

. . . which leads to “falling” into a valley . . .

And again, the falling action is often a reaction segment to whatever big change–revelation or action–just happened.

Act II, Part II

Once the character gets some sense of the situation, you know what she’s going to do? Start the climb toward the current goal. Rising action.

And of course, the climb is never easy. Every climb has conflict and stakes–that’s the only way to escalate the story (in other words climb the rising action).

She hits another major turn.

In Save the Cat! this moment coincides with the “All is Lost” beat.

In Vogler’s Hero’s Journey, it’s “The Ordeal” beat.

And in 7 Point Story Structure, this is (arguably) Plot Point 2 (but there is some ambiguity on how that term gets used in the writing community).

If you don’t know those terms, that’s fine, but just know that this is the major climactic moment of Act II (Part II).

And, most frequently, it leads to the biggest “fall” of the story–a big lully drop to a low, low valley. It’s usually the largest reaction segment of the story.

Well, guess what happens next?

Act III

After the character has taken some time to wallow in his failures, he’ll find his footing and start the last climb–to Act III’s climax, which is (almost) always simultaneously the climax of the whole story.

And that’s the basic structure of the story, through acts.

Acts and Inciting Incidents

Now, if we were to zoom in a bit more, we would likely find that each act also has an “inciting incident”–it’s usually what kicks off the next climb. It’s what gets the character to leave the valley and come up with a plan about what to do next (whether or not the plan plays out as intended).

The most recognizable one in storytelling approaches (other than the first one, in Act I) is Act III’s.

After Act II, Part II’s major lull, usually the protagonist gains something that pulls her out of the lull. If you are following along with your beat sheets . . .

Save the Cat! calls this “Break into Three.”

Vogler’s Hero’s Journey calls this, “Reward: Seizing the Sword.”

And (this is where the ambiguity creeps back in), this is often lumped in with “Plot Point 2” in 7 Point Story Structure.

But Act II will also usually have its own “inciting incident,” something that gets the character on track for the next climb.

And . . . if we went much deeper into structure, I’d probably need to fill up a whole book. So, we’ll end there.

Just make sure to mind the peaks and valleys of your acts–your story, agent, editor, and readers will thank you for it. Even if they don’t recognize what you are doing, they feel it.

(And you’ll probably thank yourself for it too!)

#Writing tips #writing tips and tricks #writing help #writing advice #writeblr #fanfic #writing acts

[ventisettestars]

DannyMay Day 4

Day 4: Fractals [ao3]

Summary: Danny’s Ectoplasm doesn’t look right under the microscope.

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Dinner was just about done when Maddie took a breath and said. “Danny. We need to discuss your connections to Phantom.” 

It took everything in Danny to not drop his visibility and fade away. “Ah, the ghost boy you and dad are always hunting?”

“You don’t need to play dumb, we know.”

“What, what's to know? I’m not-”

“We know you’ve been helping him for a while now.” 

“H-helping? What makes-”

“Your mother and I have known you’ve been giving him the thermoses and Fenton tools. Why do you think we’ve made them so easy for you to grab around the house?” 

“I- Okay, yeah that makes sense. I thought you were just careless, but yeah, Why?”

“Well, we figured it would be better to leave out the safe things for you to find and tinker around with rather than the more experimental stuff..” Hearing that they had worse things, didn’t really comfort Danny, but his mom didn’t seem to notice his nerves as she continued. “Regardless, we have a favor to ask of Phantom, and we're hoping that you’d ask him something for us. Either by being the inbetween, or setting up a meeting place so we can talk.”

Danny’s guard rose. “Depends, but I might be able to.” 

“We need a sample of his ectoplasm.” His dad was straight to the point.

“We’ve been examining a sample from a fight a few days ago, but the structure deteriorated too much to continue to be used.” 

Danny looked like he was going to be sick. Ectoplasm shouldn’t just deteriorate. What were they doing with it?  “Why do you need more if you already studied it?” 

“Well. It’s got a weird makeup. Different from other samples, to the point where if we didn’t know it was ectoplasm from a spook, we’d think him an entirely different species. You’re mother thinks it might be why his powers are so- well powerful.” His dad laughed. “See, son. You know what Fractals are right?”

Danny nodded. 

“Phantom’s ectoplasm contains an actual DNA sequence. Can you believe it? We were trying to get a better look, but the more we zoomed in, it kept repeating in a pattern, never actually getting any closer. It alternated between his ectosignature and what appears to be human DNA.”

“But as your father said, what is happening is when we get just close enough to the DNA to record it, the ectosignature comes into view and blocks our view. Then once making it through, it's as though we were reversing the magnification. Except it’s been magnified a great deal more. I’ve got this theory that the reason he is so powerful is because this fractal shift is creating a dense matrix of ectoplasm.”

Jack took over. “Sort of how batteries have different charges where size doesn’t really matter, his ectoplasm is like that. Super-charged and continuing to compound in on itself. How he keeps growing.”

“But we can’t look into it any further cause this matrix of his seems to deteriorate exponentially faster than normal Ectoplasm when disconnected from a Ectobeing. Most likely due to it relying on his core or something.”

Danny stared blankly. “So basically, you want another sample so you can figure out why he is so dense and what's up with the random threads of DNA?” 

“Yeah! So can you son?”

“I’ll see what I can do. What should I collect the sample in?”

“We’ve got vials!” Jack pulled out vials like ninja throwing stars, one for in between each finger.

“We probably only need one, maybe two? It would be a waste to collect more since we wouldn’t really be able to look at them all before it broke down.” 

“Okay. I’ll see what I can do.” Danny took two of the vials. 

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Danny snuck down to the lab after his parents went to sleep to take a look at what his parents described at dinner. Sure enough, the spiraling pattern of alternating ecto and human DNA spiraled as far down as the mid grade microscope could manage, looking to continue past that. 

It was fascinating and confusing. Out of dumb curiosity, he checked a blood sample, and sure enough, once getting far enough magnified, it switched to ectoplasm. 

It was fascinating the pattern the sequence made. It really was a Fractal. He wondered if it meant that it would continue to spiral in the perfect shape ever denser. Made him think about dense celestial bodies and shutter. Not from fear, but his core sang at the similarities to a star. 

“I wonder…” Danny looked to the portal and decided to experiment. He shot a text to the phantom group chat to let them know he was going to the Zone. 

Once there, he relaxed, trying to see if he could unwind the coil of his ectoplasm. When he did, all that happened was he went human. He tried it again and he went ghost. But both times it didn’t feel like he was changing like normal. It felt like he was changing backwards. Wiping away his transformation rather than transforming. 

Then it occurred to him. 

Each time he switched, was he actually just compressing another layer of ectoplasm over his other form. Like his rings were, what, applying another layer of ectoplasm or applying more of his human DNA to cover the ectoplasm? Danny didn’t know enough about this sort of thing. 

Looks like he was going to be giving his parents a sample to look at.

#Dannymay2023 #dp #danny phantom #my fic #its just shy of 1k words

[shinolavolume1]

the way i react to seeing the original shape show up again in the middle of a mandelbrot fractal zoom video is akin to a marvel fan seeing a character they know in the post credits scene of their silly little movies

[little-pondhead]

Day 4: Fractals

DANNYMAY MASTERLIST

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"Clockwork! I finished the mission!" Danny zoomed through his mentor's tower, avoiding mysterious doors and ticking clocks. He knew that if he lingered too long, it would be all too easy to get sucked into another time, lost to the whim of the cosmos.

And Danny didn't want that! He had a test Monday! He planned to use the next few hours for study right after his report to Clockwork.

A shudder ran through Danny's body as the time medallion in his chest buzzed. The timeline changed again. He didn't think much about it, as this was frequent. Once the Ancient of Time came into view, all thoughts of the timeline left his mind, and Danny quickly closed the gap between him and Clockwork.

"Thank you, Daniel." Clockwork seemed distracted, bent over and poking around the inner workings of a destroyed clock. Huh. Danny had never seen one of the clocks break in the tower before. Oh well. "I believe I promised you a weekend of rest. Please put the artifact over there, and I'll ensure none of your rogues leave the Realms for the time being."

Danny perked up, trilling in excitement. "Okay!" He emptied the contents of his utility belt onto the table Clockwork had summoned, noting with mild curiosity that the artifact was a small metal compass, with the needle pointing south rather than north. How strange.

Whatever. A small portal opened up to his left, presumably leading straight to his bedroom. "Bye, Clockwork! See you later!"

The ghost did not look up, but Danny could hear the smile in his voice. "Goodbye, Daniel. I'll see you tomorrow."

Tomorrow? Didn't he mean Monday? His mentor's demeanor and response seemed off, but Danny just shrugged and dove into the swirling green. He trusted Clockwork, but sometimes he couldn't help but wonder if the old ghost was losing it.

...

"Clockwork! I finished the mission!" Danny zoomed through his mentor's tower, avoiding mysterious doors and ticking clocks. He knew that if he lingered too long, it would be all too easy to get sucked into another time, lost to the whim of the cosmos.

And Danny didn't want that! He had a test Monday! He planned to use the next few hours for study right after his report to Clockwork.

A shudder ran through Danny's body as the time medallion in his chest buzzed. The timeline changed again. He didn't think much about it, as this was frequent. Once the Ancient of Time came into view, all thoughts of the timeline left his mind, and Danny quickly closed the gap between him and Clockwork.

"Thank you, Daniel." Clockwork seemed distracted, bent over and poking around the inner workings of a destroyed clock. Huh. Danny had never seen one of the clocks break in the tower before. Oh well. "I believe I promised you a weekend of rest. Please put the artifact over there, and I'll ensure none of your rogues leave the Realms for the time being."

Danny perked up, trilling in excitement. "Okay!" He emptied the contents of his utility belt onto the table Clockwork had summoned, noting with mild-huh? Danny paused, peering down at the little compass sitting in his hands. Why did this feel familiar? The needle was wobbling but was still pointing true south.

True south?

Whatever. A small portal opened up to his left, presumably leading straight to his bedroom. Danny forgot about his concerns. "Bye, Clockwork! See you later!"

The ghost did not look up, but Danny could hear the smile in his voice. "Goodbye, Daniel. I'll see you tomorrow."

Tomorrow? Didn't he mean Monday? His mentor's demeanor and response seemed off, but Danny just shrugged and dove into the swirling green. He trusted Clockwork, but sometimes he couldn't help but wonder if the old ghost was losing it.

...

"Clockwork! I finished the mission!" Danny zoomed through his mentor's tower, avoiding mysterious doors and ticking clocks. He knew that if he lingered too long, it would be all too easy to get sucked into another time, lost to the whim of the cosmos.

And Danny didn't want that! He had a test Monday! He planned to use the next few hours for study right after his report to Clockwork.

A shudder ran through Danny's body as the time medallion in his chest buzzed. The timeline changed again. He didn't think much about it, as this was frequent. Once the Ancient of Time came into view, all thoughts of the timeline left his mind, and Danny quickly closed the gap between him and Clockwork.

"Thank you, Daniel." Clockwork seemed distracted, bent over and poking around the inner workings of a destroyed clock. Huh. Danny had never seen one of the clocks break in the tower before. Oh well. "I believe I promised you a weekend of rest. Please put the artifact over there, and I'll ensure none of your rogues leave the Realms for the time being."

Danny stuttered to a halt, alarm bells going off in his head. Where had he heard that before? This whole meeting was giving him a strong sense of deja vu and not the fun kind. Carefully, with his eyes trained on Clockwork, Danny slipped his hand inside his utility belt. His clawed fingers brushed the small package he'd retrieved on his mission. It was the compass. He'd bet anything it was pointing south. Where Clockwork was sitting.

Come to think of it, what was his mission?

Danny didn't remember.

"Daniel? Is there something wrong?" Clockwork finally looked at him, and Danny felt a sense of wrong wash over his body.

"You're not Clockwork." He whispered, eyes wide.

Time seemed to freeze, and then reality warped. The being who wore Clockwork's face lunged forward, arms outstretched. Faster than he could blink, claws wrapped around his face and his vision went black-

...

"How's the young halfling doing?" One of the Observants asked, cold voice echoing throughout the tiny chamber he was in.

Another Observant leaned forward and tapped on the glass of a crystal compass. The mechanism had been cracked and tainted with green ectoplasm dripping from under the lid and onto the floor.

"He is resisting." The second Observant stated, straightening themselves. "But no matter, another turn of the needle, and he'll restart the day again. This is nothing more than a fluke."

"Yessss," The first Observant hissed. "I have faith in your capabilities, but remember the little Phantom is stronger than you might think. Keeping him locked in an Eternal Fractal won't hold him forever."

"We don't need forever. We just need him to End."

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