I went outside fractal-hunting today. I was looking at plants, and here are a few of my findings:
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| A red cedar branch. It's Y's all the way down! |
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| A camelia flower, its petals going round and round. |
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| Each branch of this shrub comes from another (thicker) branch and so on until the trunk. Below ground, its root system is like a branch system that we could draw as a fractal. |
Look at this really cool photograph (done by an artist) of an autumn leaf CLOSE UP:
PAUL OOMEN / FINEARTAMERICA.COM
Are there fractals in the plants around where you live, too?
I wonder why plants grow with repeating patterns like this...does Nature just find fractals pretty or is there more to it? What do you think?
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