Mandelbroc (sic)

Each decreasingly small piece a copy of the whole. Ain't nature wonderful?



Regards,

Stuart

StuartRae said:

Each decreasingly small piece a copy of the whole. Ain't nature wonderful?

Regards,

Stuart

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There's words for this: fractal, beautiful and lime green!

asher

Superb picture Stuart.

What's the mathematical name for such spirals?

Asher

The spiral itself would be called logarithmic spiral and the fact that it repeats itself almost identically several times is called self-similarity.
Although not true golden spirals, I still think Fibonacci would be impressed by its beauty :-D

StuartRae said:

Each decreasingly small piece a copy of the whole. Ain't nature wonderful?
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Amen to that Bro!!

And a wonderful picture it is too, Stuart.!!
Best regards.

Michael and Fahim, thanks for your kind comments.


Maggie, thanks for elucidating. The creature in question is a romanesque (or romanesco) broccoli. It was very fashionable in the '80s, but this specimen was the first I'd seen for several years, and I just had to buy it.

My title for the post was an attempt at a clever pun. Although the broccoli is not an example of the Mandelbrot set it does show recursive detail and as Maggie says it displays the fractal property of self-similarity.

Regards,

Stuart

For a moment I almost thought it was computer generated - you have to look hard to realise that it isn't. If you trimmed the leaves and didn't have the paper towel I would wonder very hard about it.