Fantastic Jack Frost play on my windows this morning. Magically, he’d been growing ice crystal gardens as I slept.
Nature, so complex, is also repetitive with much being mathematically based on fractals, a pattern which repeats itself at different scales. Fractals are an efficient way of filling space. Allowing light to enter as a tree does, blood reach extremities as our vascular system does, or for growing larger like a fern frond unfurling or a young snail growing up. Fractals are fun.
PS. We used to have a book titled "Physics is Fun" which we kept on the bookshelf only for its ludicrous, smile inducing, title alone. Perhaps if we'd opened it we might have discovered something fun on fractals.
- Charlotte
