Vol Libre, fractals, CG, & modern finance theories

From Kottke.org, the first CG movie using fractals to generate graphics.

Vol Libre from Loren Carpenter on Vimeo.

In 1980, Boeing employee Loren Carpenter presented a film called Vol Libre at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. It was the world's first film using fractals to generate the graphics.

Fractals explained at Wikipedia.
The birth of Fractal Geometry was by Benoît Mandelbrot.

Mandelbrot's research, some of which can be found in his book, inspired others like Nassim Taleb author of The Black Swan. If a fraction of their theories are correct, what has been learned in undergrad & grad schools the last 20 or so years relating to modern finance theory & macro economics is sorta wrong to all wrong.

Imagine the field you are working in & you learn that what you and your collegues have been taught is wrong to various degrees & what that would do to your profession.

Now go "invest" like it's 1989.