“My favourites are waves, fractals and spirals. But I also love general symmetry and look for this when I’m taking photographs.” As with many things in life, pausing and looking deeper into ...

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Fractals are sometimes referred to as a “visual representation of math.” They can be observed in the spatial arrangements found in many familiar forms, patterns and shapes in nature: from the ...

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In maths, the term “fractal” would sometimes apply, meaning that the same shape repeats at diminishing scale. The spirals of a Romanesco cauliflower embody Fibonacci numbers at multiple ...

Again, the fractal design is caused by accelerated growth. It's a natural example of the logarithmic or equiangular spiral. In plant biology, fractal designs are called spiral phyllotaxy ...

forming the cauliflower's spiraling fractal structure. Top: The two main families of spirals in cauliflower—one in ochre tones (8 spirals) and the other in pinkish tones (5 spirals). Each spiral ...

Many of these patterns take the form of fractals. Fractals The classical ... symbolic realms. Self-similar spirals, for example, recur in the growth of nautilus shells, in the spiral flower ...