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Fun "fractal food" website & review

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Posted by: Jason Cawley

John Walker has a website about patterns and shapes found in typical plants, multiple scales of similar pyramids and phyllotaxis whorls in broccoli and cauliflower and the like. His page also includes a review of the NKS books and references to Rudy Rucker and Benoit Mandelbrot. "It seems like the universe just wants to compute", he says at one point.

I thought some might find his page interesting -

http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/





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