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- jmpeagle, on 11/27/2007, -17/+148that's not a fractal jackass
- SimianSamurai, on 11/27/2007, -3/+100That almost doesn't look real
- dasmonki, on 11/27/2007, -0/+78http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli
- carpespasm, on 11/27/2007, -1/+72"I've never seen aloe vera like this"
That's because it's Aloe Polyphylla, not Aloe Vera. - scrimaxinc, on 11/27/2007, -2/+71Isn't this just a spiral? I thought you could take any single part of a fractal....zoom in....and find the pattern again. Anyone?
- steinalec, on 11/27/2007, -3/+61haha, "crop"
sry :( - NeoCortex, on 11/27/2007, -2/+51It's a space station.
- victimofkratina, on 11/27/2007, -4/+53thats not aloe vera.
- iancgi, on 11/27/2007, -5/+44The Fibonacci sequence; the most beautiful pattern in our universe. From galaxies to humans to organism we all share this amazing pattern in one way or another. Just look for the spiral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number#Fibo ...
A little band called tool decided to incorporate this pattern into their music.
More info about that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY - dakilla91, on 11/27/2007, -3/+41What the hell is wrong with you?..
- hvsahin, on 11/27/2007, -2/+37It looks so flawless. Going to get my crop tool out because I just found a new wallpaper.
- zachshmack, on 11/27/2007, -0/+22http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/
- Littleedgitt, on 11/27/2007, -1/+20considering about 75% of digg users are atheist
you'll probably be dugg down - novask, on 11/27/2007, -4/+22I agree, the flying spaghetti monster is all powerful.
- NeoCortex, on 11/27/2007, -2/+18By getting Dugg.
- scrimaxinc, on 11/27/2007, -3/+18Because you touch yourself at night.
- timjim31, on 11/27/2007, -1/+16its ok i hate myself
- meno911, on 11/27/2007, -2/+15I ain't no mathematician but I do reckon that's no fractal! :)
- victimofkratina, on 11/27/2007, -1/+14youre right.
- littlemarcho, on 11/27/2007, -1/+13holy ***** that is cool. thanks for the link man. Appreciated!
It is so much better than the original actually - BlackMagic2, on 11/27/2007, -2/+10My understanding was that a fractal was something that never ends when you zoom in... which is... well... everything. Like the coastline example most sources give.
Meh, who cares. - NathanielJ, on 11/27/2007, -2/+9You're not allowed to say that it's not a fractal if you yourself don't know what a fractal is.
- insertAliasHere, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7He's going to "crop" a pic of a plant...it doesn't work when you have to explain it.
- MadScientist440, on 11/27/2007, -2/+8Technically, it isn't a fractal, but if you zoom in far enough toward the center, you see some Fraggles!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dreamsharing.jp ... - Mikecol, on 11/27/2007, -0/+6You're
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7I have three... I also have this cake.
- Ghoztt, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7Fractals are everywhere in nature. Take some mushrooms or some LSD and you can really see them easily. Walk into your house or anything else man-made and you can't see ANY FRACTALS. Then walk out into nature and it's like WHOA!!!!
- blagoaw, on 11/27/2007, -2/+8In a spoken language it's most reasonable to recognize alternate uses of a word as long as it fits the context. If you're going to be pedantic, you could say that there is a lower bound on the domain (which is acceptable and often practical). If you call him a jackass on the basis of some arbitrary authority, you're revealing your own ignorance.
clarification: Some definitions of fractal contain the specification that the term only applies to patterns that cannot be represented by classical geometry.. I'm guessing that's what you're referring to. However, you can also find definitions like this one:
Fractal:
n. A complex geometric pattern exhibiting self-similarity in that small details of its structure viewed at any scale repeat elements of the overall pattern. - inspecality, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7you can eat anything
- suchsubtlety, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5ha, exactly what i was going to post.
i work in produce so i see it all the time... but it never ceases to fascinate me. - R2Bacca, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6What your comment lacks is a connection between the Golden Ratio and the spiral exhibited by the aloe plant. Are you just trying to act like everyone should know what the golden ratio is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio - kakwakas, on 11/27/2007, -4/+9The Golden Ratio is probably the most beautiful thing in this universe.
- themastersb, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6Oh God! The spirals! Get them away from me!!!!! It's the spirals that are driving everyone mad!!!!!
- avanyx, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6Yeah it's not a fractal. You should also be careful about assigning the Fibonacci spiral. People are seemingly obsessed with the Fibonacci sequence, assigning it to many different phenomena where it actually doesn't exist. It's like seeing faces in the moon, clouds or slices of bread. I'm sure I saw the face of Elvis in a potato once.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4No.
From Wiki:
A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity. The term was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured".
As in, yes you do have self similarity if you are a fractal.
Don't take the result of Photoshop's "Fractal Noise" filter as an example of a fractal. - sock2828, on 11/27/2007, -5/+9I assure you its real.
I have one of these planted in my front yard
its amazing! - JupiterSSJ4, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6because flickr is where you post real pictures for the most part
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -3/+7Because it proves thats the infinite complexity of nature can all be derived from incredibly simple math, meaning that a "creator" is unnecessary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal
- clark24, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Aloe, but not Aloe Vera.
- spyrochaete, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6Pi by Darren Aronofsky has many references to spirals as well. My favourite movie of all time.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ - boombye, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Fibonacci sequence and even Phi, things that many of the idiots here on Digg haven't studied yet because their high school hasn't taught them ***** yet. Here's a link for the morons that dugg him down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
- duniyadnd, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4You reckon right, it's not really a fractal. looks cool anyway. :)
For those who don't know what Fractal is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal - inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Very real. It is the fibonacci sequence and occurs in many things in nature. Pine cones and seeds are quite common, but harder to see the sequence. It is also common in sea shells and many living things.
- jmpeagle, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6your second statement is true, your first one is false
- tyywebb, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6Here, just drive this power drill into your skull.
- geneticlemon, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3This reminds me of Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_in_Mathmagic_L ...
Basically, Donald and the magic narrator found math in everything, including sea shells, playing pool ... even fractals in everyday shapes. A must have for every young math nerd. :) - smek2, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3It's the other way around. Nature doesn't follow Fibonacci numbers or a golden ratio, rather mathematicians observed these patterns in reality and applied them as rules in architecture and art.
- boombye, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3If you don't know where to look because you were a dumb ass who was diggin down burkey and also thinks this has nothing to do with the Fibonacci sequence then you should check out this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio#Relation ...
- LoveYouSomeEric, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Malicious? Incorrect, yes... but malicious? That's a little paranoid. Do you truly think that there is some insidious plot here to disseminate bad information about fractal geometry? I would guess the guy just don't quite understand what a fractal is.
- b3owulf, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3sooo many plants grow in a spiral... look at any flower... or pinecone.. or pineapple
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