Fractals for Food
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 "QUANTUM SHOT" #133If You Eat This, Will You become Better At Math? You probably have seen it before, but this vegetable never ceases to amaze me.    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    Photo by Benjamin Pender More cabbage weirdness:  Photo by Tuffen  Photo by Narcissa   Fractals in Nature Ferns are a good example:     (image credit: Colin Warren) Classic seashell geometry:  Fractal virus and bacterial colonies:     (from Science News) Fractal lighting:  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 While you may be eating fractals, there is a hungry-looking blob out there eager to eat you (you're also full of fractals, you know). Check out this very active "cornstarch life-form": Speaking about "normal" fractals - The your inner fractal hog, here is a set that should satisfy you: Fractales Permanent Link...  Category: Nature,Weird Related Posts: ...It`s All About Fractals, Baby, Pre-Fractal Art |
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Here is a simple fractal discovered many centuries ago in Italy by a mathematician theorizing reproduction of rabbits.
Start with 1.1 and 1 equals 2. 1 and 2 equals 3. 2 and 3 equals 5. 3 and 5 equals 8. 5 and 8 equals 13.
This simple pattern produces ratios found in nature, where these particular numbers (5 and 8, 8 and 13) appear.
Something else. The ratio of the numbers produces the Golden Ratio.
"Mathematics is the language of Nature".
nice:) we love fractals so much, we have a blog called Fractal Enlightenment.:) its all around, nature's creation
I am always amazed to see how much nature and maths are linked together. Math tries to explain stuff as good as it can, but nature is always one step ahead. Great food pictures, it just look amazing!
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