Fractals for Food

"QUANTUM SHOT" #133

If You Eat This, Will You become Better At Math?

You probably have seen it before, but this vegetable never ceases to amaze me.

This is "Chou Romanesco" cauliflower
(more images and some great facts are here).
"When you come across it in a grocery store... on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology."
Read more about it here,
and about a man-made "Brocciflower" here

Photo by Benjamin Pender

More cabbage weirdness:

Photo by Tuffen

Photo by Narcissa

Fractals in Nature

Ferns are a good example:

(image credit: Colin Warren)

Classic seashell geometry:

Fractal virus and bacterial colonies:

(from Science News)

Fractal lighting:

Fractal formations created in electrical discharge: so called "Lichtenberg Figures" become visible on rocks, wood and even people, when struck by lightning. This particular one appeared while exposing a rotating lucite cylinder to the electron beam.
Source: Miqel

While you may be eating fractals, there is a hungry-looking blob out there eager to eat you (you're also full of fractals, you know).
Check out this very active "cornstarch life-form":