1. Two plates were created by ceramisist Mia Sarosi. Each plate has a hand painted QR code, which can be scanned on a phone to open one of two different Websites. 

2. One of the Websites (http://tbowcutt.wix.com/mia314) has a "fractal canvass", which viewers can manipulate to create their own fractal image. They can then Tweet the details of the image. Viewer's Tweets store the settings for the specific image they have created (so anyone clicking the link in the Tweet will see the image they have created). Viewers need to be on a laptop or desktop for the fractal to work (not their phone), and Tweets will show on the site the next day. This allows people to interact with, and become a contributor, to the piece. UPDATE: 2017 - Google has removed the fractal canvas, this has been replaced with an alternative version.   

  

3.What is a Fractal? 

 "A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale. If the replication is exactly the same at every scale, it is called a self-similar pattern. Fractals can also be nearly the same at different levels. Fractals reflect the idea of a detailed pattern that repeats itself forever. Fractals, like the world around us, are infinitely beautiful. 

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4. The concept of the fractal links to the infinite beauty in science, as discussed in the audio and text on the site.

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5. The text and audio is created as follows: 

• The original audio is Physicist Richard Feynman, discussing how artists and scientists view flowers in different ways

• Playing with the concept of codes and how technology can loose natural beauty, the following process was followed: 

  • Played the Feynman audio through google speech recognition (which creates text from audio);

  • Put the speech "recognised" text though google translate, into welsh, arabic etc (loosing some accuracy in transalation);

  • Put the translated text into google reader to create more audio of people speaking in the different languages;

  • Converted the reuslting text to binary and decimal numbers (as text is held in computer code);

  • Played the binary numbers through a dial tone machine (e..g on phone the dial tones for 1 and 0 are different) to create sound for the audio

  • Converted the audio to a graphical wave function shown at the left hand side of the site;

  • Clasical music is in the background,  is the flower duet, linking back to Feynmans' discussion of beauty of flowers.