Natural fractals!
Back in April, Mother Nature Network carried a wonderful item about the amazing fractals that can be found in nature.
Nothing to do with dogs but all to do with loving and caring for our planet!
I am not going to republish the full article with all the wonderful photographs so if the following piques your curiosity then go here to read the full piece.
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14 amazing fractals found in nature
Take a tour through the magical world of natural fractals and discover the joy of simple complexity.
SHEA GUNTHER April 24, 2013
When you think of fractals, you might think of Grateful Dead posters and T-shirts, all pulsating with rainbow colors and swirling similarity. Fractals, first named by mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975, are special mathematical sets of numbers that display similarity through the full range of scale — i.e., they look the same no matter how big or how small they are. Another characteristic of fractals is that they exhibit great complexity driven by simplicity — some of the most complicated and beautiful fractals can be created with an equation populated with just a handful of terms. (More on that later.)
One of the things that attracted me to fractals is their ubiquity in nature. The laws that govern the creation of fractals seem to be found throughout the natural world. Pineapples grow according to fractal laws and ice crystals form in fractal shapes, the same ones that show up in river deltas and the veins of your body. It’s often been said that Mother Nature is a hell of a good designer, and fractals can be thought of as the design principles she follows when putting things together. Fractals are hyper-efficient and allow plants to maximize their exposure to sunlight and cardiovascular systems to most efficiently transport oxygen to all parts of the body. Fractals are beautiful wherever they pop up, so there’s plenty of examples to share.
Here are 14 amazing fractals found in nature:
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To view the other 13 fractals then go across to here.
Aren’t they beautiful! Or, to pick up on a sentence in the article: “It’s often been said that Mother Nature is a hell of a good designer,”
Not only a good designer but the provider of life as we know it!
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Lovely post! The first photo of the shell reminds me of the spiral staircase in La Sagrada Familia, the massive church deigned by Gaudi who was inspired by nature. Mother Nature is definitely the best designer!
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Oh, I didn’t know that! About Gaudi, that is! Thank you and have a great weekend!
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Wonderful post and pictures. Yes, God is a wonderful designer.
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Thanks Anita, thank you very much.
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Yup! did a study on sacred geometry when I was in college as an adult. Loved it, and all your images are so familiar! So glad you are enjoying this aspect of natural science! 😉
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That’s interesting. “Sacred geometry”? Curious as to what was the ‘sacred’ aspect of that teaching? Surely, geometry is about mathematics?
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The Universe is just wonderous in its creation.. . Are we not all Holograms.. lol.. All reflections of the Whole!… 😉
Just a thought.. 🙂 Maths like the binary code.. a series of numbers.. Maybe we are all plugged into a massive hard-drive.. 😀 lol.. Maybe its now going to get swiped and re-booted.. just another thought.. Just planting a few seeds Paul.. And we need to keep on questioning.. and be prepared to find the answers are not always the one we seek.. Speak more soon..
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