Google Earth Fractals Photographs

Since October 2010, Bourke has been documenting fractal patterns in nature as found on Google Earth. On his site, he has a comprehensive gallery of satellite imagery The following is a "photographic" gallery of fractals patterns found while exploring the planet with Google Earth. Google Earth fractals Written by Paul Bourke Started: October 20 Last updated: October 201 Introduction. The following is a "photographic" gallery of fractal The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature rsquo s Fractals ldquo Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate

A fractal is a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a smaller copy of the whole. Fractals are generally self-similar (bits look like the whole) and independent of scale (they look similar, no matter how close you zoom in). Many mathematical structures are fractals; e.g. {Sierpinski triangle}, {Koch snowflake}, {Peano curve}, {Mandelbrot set} and {Lorenz attractor}. Fractals also describe many real-world objects that do not have simple geometric shapes, such as clouds, mountains, turbulence, and coastlines. {Benoit Mandelbrot}, the discoverer of the {Mandelbrot set}, coined the term "fractal" in 1975 from the Latin fractus or "to break".

[images via Google Earth Fractals]

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