Nature's Fractals - Romanesco, originally uploaded by sarahahmed. After the last post on fractals, I was tempted to do a little more research into them. Here is the official definition of a fractal (from Mandelbrot-the guy who ... which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole". Fractals happen in nature all the time-a good example is romanesco broccoli (posted on Flickr ...

Weird Fractals Free Screensaver shows you a beautiful set of fractal images having very unusual forms and nice pure colors and hues. These images are so weird and make the strong push to your imagination. You will definitely please your eyes watching this colorful fractal images on the screen of your PC! Requirements: · DirectX 8

Tomorrow’s weather: Cloudy, with a chance of fractals – environment – 04 November 2009 – New Scientist The team realised that one source of ... 36, p L01801) – and they were simply stunning. The satellite data generated a beautiful collection of fractals and followed power laws on scales from tens of thousands of kilometres down to about 10 kilometres. Posted in Science

Remember when we first discovered fractals. I got Benoit Mandelbrot's book back in the 1980s when I was working on a book about computer graphics. How amazing it seemed then that a ... and fascinating patterns and that fractal patterns could be found everywhere in nature. Now prepare yourself for that extra dimension: Fractals in 3-D. a truly awesome sight. See The Unravelling of the 3D Mandelbulb

Fig. 1 - Base space gasket Fig. 2: 2-space gasket We return to fractals again, this time to examine them in more detail at a basic level. Here I want to compare two simple fractal spaces based on an object known as "the Sierpinski gasket". The most elemental form is depicted in Fig. 1 above and can be compared with Fig 2 which is generated from it. For Fig. 1, we regard the simple (1/a) ...

I'm in a bit of an autumny mood today, and the fractals seem to be heading that way too as well. A little bit minimalist for a change, but there's a quiet elegance here which I've missed for a while amidst the chaos and confusion of the past months. Enjoy! Keep well...