Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 2

I thought this looked interesting:

http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/...day_040130.html

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Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 712

Compare the NKS book, page 165...

Not that it is exactly that rule - it clearly isn't. But you see many of the same sorts of features. Looking through a list of similar rules one might find a reasonably close approximation.

Let's update that page 165 reference with a link -

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-165

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Registered: Feb 2004
Posts: 12

Very pretty. Compare and contrast these NASA images of von Karman vortices ...
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_...n_vortices.html
... produced when the flow goes turbulent. Obvious connection with the fluid flow section on page 376 onward (http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-376).

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Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 2

Those are nice ...

I found another website which shows this as well:

http://www.solarviews.com/browse/earth/vortexstreet.jpg

and its parent page:

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/cloud1.htm

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In particular the 'Florida Squall Line' and the 'Jet Stream Convergence' show 'simple' triangular CA behavior.

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Registered: Mar 2005
Posts: 3

These images also look very like boat wakes.

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