Anyone Get Today's Google Logo Redesign?

Factual Questions
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I sure don’t. Some of the letters have been restyled in a funky-but-not-obvious-to-me-what-it-means way, and there are some math equations in a background gray screen at the top.

I had a quick look to see if this is the anniversary of a famous birth, death or other event, but didn’t see anything that leaped out at first glance. (It would be a very odd way to comemmorate ``The Day the Misic Died’’ in 1959; while we’re at it, happy birthday to Nathan Lane and a moment of silence for Boris Karloff.)

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They’re fractals. Don’t know if it’s for anything. They’re just kinda neat looking.

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Note the mouseover text: Gaston Julia. He came up with the rather beautiful fractal pattern called the Julia Set, and he was born on February 3 1893, 111 years ago today.

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Click the logo and it perfoms a search on julia fractals.

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Reminder to self: Take a second to proofread so as to avoid mistakes such as misspelling ``music.’’

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Note that if you click on the groovy Google logo, you get taken to image search results for various Julia sets. Kinda neat that they’ve come up with a fairly obscure anniversary for today.

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You don’t seem to have realized that the Google people are complete and utter geeks. :wink:

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The one on the left is kind of Mandelbrotey.

Well, okay, not exactly. I just wanted to say “Mandelbrotey.” :slight_smile:

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As are most of us:) I just spent twenty minutes explaining fractals to my bored coworker using the shoreline analogy and Serpinski gaskets…

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Looks like Google needs to be more careful about this kind of thing. From http://www.unpronounceable.com/julia/julia-alt-015.html

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neat, my birthday is today, too. not that i didn’t anything cool. well, once in driver’s ed i taught myself to blow a bubble within a bubble with my gum. that’s pretty much it.

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See also this thread.