"PM 2Ring" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Sorry, I had a cold. :)
Ha ha!!
> Don't worry, it's more like a tradition than a rule... but if you want
> respect around here, you've gotta do one. :)
I see, maybe I should do one, if I think of something good for it.
> Although the AHS is topologically equivalent to a sphere, it behaves a bit
> like a torus. If you tie a ribbon around it, you can't slip the ribbon off
> in a finite number of steps, due to the infinite interlocking.
Sounds frustrating. :)
> Alexander's Horned Sphere was discovered in the early years of the 20th
> century. Back then, the fractals that had been discovered were considered
> abnormal and pathological, so I guess that's why the AHS was called ugly.
> Of course, all that changed with the work of Mandelbrot, et al.
"abnormal and pathological" fractals - too funny. Thanks for the pictures.

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