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Fractal food#2
This wonderful Romanesco broccoli was almost too good to eat, and actually it looks far more remarkable than it tastes! A wonderful example of fractals in nature. Read more about it in the Wikipedia entry on Romanesco broccoli.
If you like this kind of math stuff, check out Clifford Pickover's book The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature, John Briggs' Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, and of course James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science.
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Fractal food#2
This wonderful Romanesco broccoli was almost too good to eat, and actually it looks far more remarkable than it tastes! A wonderful example of fractals in nature. Read more about it in the Wikipedia entry on Romanesco broccoli.
If you like this kind of math stuff, check out Clifford Pickover's book The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature, John Briggs' Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, and of course James Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science.
Our images are published under a Creative Commons Licence (see opposite) and are free for noncommercial use. We also license our images for commercial use. Please contact us directly via our website for more details.