To compare this evening's fractal with nature, take a walk. Look beyond the scaling patterns in the autumn leaves, the branching trees, the billowing clouds, and up into the darkness of space. If the time is right, you'll see a familiar shape, similar to the following image. This, of course, isn't a photograph, but a computer-generated set of patterns based on numbers. This Julia Set has been trapped within a spherical shape and slightly randomized, then highlighted with nature's palette:
In case you can't find the Harvest Moon in the sky tonight, try this picture, taken by Bev Brink in 2003:
For more information about the Harvest Moon, visit NASA's article, Strange Moonlight.
All fractals made by the author using ChaosPro
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On September 2nd this year go out somewhere: into your backyard, or the woods, or the bottom of the sea, and turn a rock or two or three. Take pictures of what you find underneath. Perhaps you'll find earthworms, or pillbugs, or beetles. Or a starfish. Maybe even a snake.
Bev has compiled a link list of useful webpages - keys of all kinds - for identifying all kinds of animals. The list should be immediately useful for our upcoming Blogger Bioblitz, but it's a good page to bookmark for future reference too.
Predaceous Diving Beetle.
Wow, awesome! I thought that *was* a moon photo at first....
Beautiful, Karmen. Many thanks.
Wow! That is a beauty.
I also thought it was a real photograph at first.
Seeing this, I feel like running up a hill singing "Careless Love" ;)