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Fractal Food: Broccoli Romanesco
posted by Mighty Staff
A closer look at the broccoli romanesco, the quintessential fractal food by John Walker (founder of Autodesk Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD):
Every self-similar pattern in nature breaks down at some scale--at the level of molecules and atoms if not before. The last photo shows the tiny structures near the top level spiral. As the spirals get smaller and smaller approaching the vertex, the spirals that make them up have less and less lower level detail, with the tiniest being little more than bumpy spheroids. ( Read More )
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