Regularity and randomness
I was reading something this evening about snowflake formation/how bacteria grow in culture/fractals. What all these processes have in common is they are based on a regular pattern/model of growth, and that the actual details of the growth outcome are unpredictable. So they are structured, but not determinable.
I then came across some stunning images of snowflakes.
This site has some lovely links.
Nature's amazing. Why do I keep forgetting that?
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They are pretty amazing, arene't they? I imagine they get the pictures using some kind of special super-high-resolution photomicroscopy apparatus (he quoted, shamelessly).
They talk through the techniques here.
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