Be it winter or spring, I can find fractals growing all around me. Patterns which seem defiantly simple emerge with branching, crystalline beauty. This week's fractal is a Julia set, transformed with inverse circles, then painted with the colors of a winter's day:
...similar to a snowy scene in thicket of coyote willow:
Ice crystals growing on a branch of coyote willow (Salix exigua Nutt.) bush
...which somewhat resemble the flowers (catkins, in this case) of the plant in the spring:
All images by the author, fractals made by the author using ChaosPro.
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tags: moose, bioinformatics class, willows,
Epitaph
An old willow with hollow branches
slowly swayed his few high bright tendrils
and sang:
Love is a young green willow
shimmering at the bare wood’s edge.
William Carlos Williams
Today we'll start this little experiment with one of the toons that gave me the idea (the other is a secret as of yet!), Empidonax from Ravencrest.
Counting Out Rhyme
Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.
Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.