Title: Rhyming challenge Post by: Zedsquared on November 28, 2007, 02:50:41 PM Hi Folks,
the challenge is to produce a topical limerick which has a rhyme for fractal in it :) When the same question was posed on the fractint mailing list a few years back I seem to recall the best began: "my cat it has paws polydactyl" The rest has fled my memory :) anyone feeling creative? Cheers, Robin. Title: Re: Rhyming challenge Post by: lycium on November 28, 2007, 03:28:19 PM interesting challenge, though i fear it may be nigh impossible :S
the most homophonic word i can think of is hacksaw (a fractal would indeed make the best hacksaw), and poetically incorporating this crude approximation in a non-tacky way is pretty difficult... in the end, as with german, some languages (in this case, technical english) just aren't suited to eloquent verse ;) ps, welcome to the forums! Title: Re: Rhyming challenge Post by: eNZedBlue on February 10, 2008, 09:08:23 AM An engineer working for Actel,
Loved to lay out the chips as a fractal, Working late back one night He was asked by his wife, "Just how long are you going to stay back 'till?" Title: Re: Rhyming challenge Post by: eNZedBlue on February 10, 2008, 09:32:45 AM Poetry's just like some fractals
With rhyming and meter and dactyls Arranged in a tree, Made of syntax you see It makes up an IFS fractal Title: Re: Rhyming challenge Post by: David Makin on February 10, 2008, 02:42:08 PM Tyrannosaurus Rex and Pterodactyls, flowers and stems, stamens, petals. All from repeating DNA, it doesn't matter what you say. All of life is made of fractals. |