Monday, December 8, 2008

cactus




I have a grafted cactus on my windowsill and it reminded me of fractals.  Many flowers follow the fractal and Fibonacci sequence patterns.  Sunflowers are also known to be true to this fact.  

3 comments:

Alyssa Venuto said...

I understood the connection between trees and fractals, but I never considered cacti. This is a cool observation. I like the repeating patterns and the bright colors along with all the spikes.

deirdre said...

yeah, i think that the more we observe things in nature, the more we realize that they're all following some kind of pattern that took humans a really long time to figure out and name. I wonder how a fractal pattern makes them stronger

Ly Marie said...

I've never thought of the centers of flowers as fractals, but now I can't imaging looking at them any other way. Do you think that roses are fractals too??