<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fdbe90e1-ec41-4cae-82b2-47d64467df22/3DF9BB3A-04E2-4292-85B2-7AEEAC0B2613/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/" href="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/" style="font-size: 11px;">webecoist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/E7FE2590-299A-4BCB-BBA9-28FEAAC5F9C3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>The nautilus is one of the most famous examples of a fractal in nature. The perfect pattern is called a Fibonacci spiral.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/5CC2164F-2297-4802-B72E-9E3D1393CF1C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/7CE1D9B4-3255-4CAB-B7FD-DA61ECA53E8C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>Lightning’s terrifying power is both awesome and beautiful. The fractals created by lightning are fascinatingly arbitrary and irregular.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/656DA54F-1696-44E2-AB84-262CD5B77F4B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>A special type of broccoli, this cruciferous and tasty cousin of the cabbage is a particularly symmetrical fractal. Cook it for your favorite mathematician.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/367F40B0-CFE7-4F5E-B207-50F0FFB1F060" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>The fern is one of many flora that are fractal; it’s an especially good example.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/2FCB22CC-E8B4-49F0-BDBE-688C13B6FC4D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>The delicate Queen Anne’s Lace, which is really just wild carrot, is a beautiful example of a floral fractal. Each blossom produces smaller iterative blooms. This particular image was shot from underneath to demonstrate the fractal nature of the plant.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/79046ED6-B504-4BD5-94BA-BD8663B0D677" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>Though not as famously geometric as its relative the Romanescu, broccoli is also a fractal.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/B91CFCC2-F518-4EF6-8208-226D4E859F9D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/130BE3E1-E14E-4ADC-8423-D00DDB1E4D4F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/EFB414D7-C9D0-44E5-B8C3-CC8F64E8ECEA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P>Look outside your window - you may see a fractal cloud at any moment.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/04C49FE3-1247-455D-8EDF-25A0C5E6184F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><STRONG>12. Mountain ranges</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/6A01E4A0-D7CD-456F-B037-2C5D25D85A5C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><STRONG>13. Trees and Leaves</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/6E1291B9-1A18-4E66-9C19-FA67A057FE81" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><P><STRONG>14. Shorelines</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/4EAF0FDB-E7EC-44B8-B3D0-6307AD0CA078" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><STRONG>15. Rivers and fjords</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/79DEFACD-6AE6-48D8-8BB8-C80964F80E30" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/7C040AF4-E101-475E-9313-BDAB08D42685" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/09/07/17-amazing-examples-of-fractals-in-nature/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/D0B5FC88-3509-4E0C-AA37-BD483AC9D21A" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3DF9BB3A-04E2-4292-85B2-7AEEAC0B2613/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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