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Re: Did not shoot Diversity - But I did
Carsten T. Rees 2009-Mar-28 10:59:00
--- In #removed#, "Fotoverkstan/Jakob Norstedt-Moberg" <jakob@...> wrote:
> "The coastline paradox states that a coastline has no single fixed
> length. "
> ...
> "Note that the scales at which the CIA World Factbook figures were
"Approximate fractals are easily found in nature. These objects display self-similar structure over an extended, but finite, scale range. Examples include clouds, snow flakes, crystals, mountain ranges, lightning, river networks, cauliflower or broccoli, and systems of blood vessels and pulmonary vessels. Coastlines may be loosely considered fractal in nature.
Trees and ferns are fractal in nature and can be modeled on a computer by using a recursive algorithm. This recursive nature is obvious in these examples?a branch from a tree or a frond from a fern is a miniature replica of the whole: not identical, but similar in nature" - From the Wikipedia-article "Fractals in Nature"
There is a mathematical way of describing the complexity of fractals - the fractal dimension. There are several definitions of that term. In general it is a coefficient between the scale of measurement and the resulting length of the measured specimen - branch of a tree, coastline, ...
Now there is a strong aesthetical aspect in fractal geometry - to discover the real beauty of fractals, a small scale of measurement (i.e. a high resolution) is needed. The smaller the scale, the more the beauty is revealed, but also the higher an effort is required for the measurement.
So it requires technical excellence to reveal the beauty of fractals in nature. And in those panoramas of Hans Nyberg show this beauty of the fractals in nature fully revealed. Of course this fractal geometry is only one small approach, just the "black-and-white" aspect of the panorama, it does not tell anything about those wonderful colours.
Vielen Dank und viele Gr??e
Carsten