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		terramars on Oct 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Earth Fractals these are great and all, but they're all exactly the same.. this is what water carves pretty much no matter what you do. everything is either glacial, a mountain ridge, a river, or a coastline. i was hoping for at least a few spectacular phytoplankton blooms or something unexpected.

danielbarla on Oct 16, 2012 [–]

Still, it's pretty cool to see some relatively abstract maths manifest itself on such a practical scale.

Here's another site with similar images:

http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/visual-math-natu...

It's hard to recommend parts of that site, it's all awesome.

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