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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Unusual Fractal Flower and a Dandelion

Here's a pretty flower I saw on my walk yesterday. I've never seen this type of fractal pattern before. 

It's hard to describe--a lily pad shape with two flowers coming out is the closest I can say. Not many fractal levels, looks like 3 iterations to me.


This Euphorbia Rigida exhibits an interesting fractal pattern.
The dandylion below is a more common fractal flower. It is only one iteration deep. You see that the hundreds of smaller flowers each look like the single mother shape.
This dandelion shows a very simple fractal pattern that only goes one iteration deep--a puff-ball made of puff-balls.
You can watch my fractal broccoli demonstration to see the many levels of a broccoli.
The reason that fractals were so hard to identify as a phenomenon is that it is the pattern of smaller and larger iterations that make up a "fractal," not its particular shape or appearance. So you can look at a number of fractal objects all lined up, like the three plants above, and not recognize that they all bespeak the same operational pattern of "as above, so below."

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