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In 1978 at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, engineers were designing experimental aircraft. A young computer scientist named Loren Carpenter was helping them visualize what the planes might look like in flight. He would get the data from them and make pictures from various angles, but he wanted to be able to put a mountain behind them. There was no way to do mountains on the computer because they consist of millions and millions of little polygons. Especially in those days computers were slower than those you have in your watch.

Carpenter didn’t just want to make just any mountains, he wanted to create a landscape that planes could fly through. But there was no way to do that with existing animation techniques. To get what he want, he started learning fractals and the fractal geometry of nature. In this documentary, Hunting the Hidden Dimension, we take a closer look at fractals and its use in various scientific branches.

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