1 Oct 2010

Fractals in Food

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This is "Chou Romanesco" cauliflower 
(more images and some great facts are here).
"When you come across it in a grocery store... on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology."
Read more about it here,
and about a man-made "Brocciflower" here

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Photo by Benjamin Pender

More cabbage weirdness:

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Photo by Tuffen

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Photo by Narcissa

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Fractals in Nature

Ferns are a good example:
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(image credit: Colin Warren)


Classic seashell geometry:
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Fractal virus and bacterial colonies:

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(from Science News)

Fractal lighting:
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Fractal formations created in electrical discharge: so called "Lichtenberg Figures" become visible on rocks, wood and even people, when struck by lightning. This particular one appeared while exposing a rotating lucite cylinder to the electron beam.
Source: Miqel