fourmilab.ch — This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. Then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering.
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ngnrOct 27, 2005
Similar patterns can be seen with relation to the Fibonacci sequence and thus the golden ratio phi = 1.618033989.... in pineapples, sunflower seeds and also other plants and objects including more shells. <a class="user" href="http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html">http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibnat.html</a>
satansmagichatOct 27, 2005
don't yell at lakah, he was just copying the description fromt he website.Lol, Numb3rs owns.
3denOct 27, 2005
sfacets: can you show any other examples of something natural you might see every day exhibiting this degree of obvious self-similarity?
dj_sea2005Oct 27, 2005
would you like fries with your cabbage?
scottjlOct 27, 2005
hey. i think i can see mary in that cabbage! let's sell it on ebay!
ubiquityxxOct 27, 2005
Amazing specimen of nature. Great Digg.
asheppOct 27, 2005
Anyone know where you can order seeds of these in the US ?
pyromouseOct 27, 2005
Not a cabbageWhen I was growing it, we reffered to it as Broccoli Romanesco (I assume it's right). Certainly more closely related to broccoli or cauliflour than a cabbage. Pretty good.Order seeds? I don't really know. Do you live in california? I might be able to set you up.
tonyisbadOct 27, 2005
i remember this being brought up on that show Numb3rs, its kinda cool, actually its a lot cooler to look at than to eat.
quasOct 31, 2005
Best romanesco photo ever:<a class="user" href="http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0411202114_clean.php">http://www.chromasia.com/iblog/archives/0411202114_clean.php</a>Officially.