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Title: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: bib on February 15, 2009, 07:28:10 PM
And it tasted very good :)
(http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9886/p10204350jm5.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: cKleinhuis on February 15, 2009, 08:07:07 PM
hmm, yummy! O0


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: twinbee on February 16, 2009, 11:28:41 PM
Does it taste better than normal broccoli?


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: bib on February 17, 2009, 09:47:22 AM
Does it taste better than normal broccoli?

They're a bit sweeter. More important, you really feel like like eating the fractal texture, it's fun  O0


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: matsoljare on February 18, 2009, 03:48:57 PM
Now here's a challange... can anyone manage to "reverse engineer" the Romanesco shhape into a proper 3d fractal? There's some Julia set which looks a lot like it, but it's 2d, and it would be interesting to see if someone can nail the full 3d structure!


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: David Makin on February 18, 2009, 08:11:25 PM
Now here's a challange... can anyone manage to "reverse engineer" the Romanesco shhape into a proper 3d fractal? There's some Julia set which looks a lot like it, but it's 2d, and it would be interesting to see if someone can nail the full 3d structure!

This is the closest I've seen:

http://geon-therealone.deviantart.com/art/Fractal-Cone-82145104


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: Nahee_Enterprises on February 19, 2009, 10:35:25 PM
Now here's a challange... can anyone manage to "reverse engineer" the Romanesco shhape into a proper 3d fractal?

I believe Garth Thornton created one using his program XenoDream (http://www.XenoDream.com/), but at the moment I can not find the link to it.  I will see if I can locate it later on when I have a few more spare minutes.
 


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: Hypnogems on April 30, 2009, 04:04:56 AM
Now here's a challange... can anyone manage to "reverse engineer" the Romanesco shhape into a proper 3d fractal? There's some Julia set which looks a lot like it, but it's 2d, and it would be interesting to see if someone can nail the full 3d structure!

I think this comes a little bit closer...its from Incendiascript, a new feature of Incendia 1.2.x.
Script written by program author Aexion; all I did was add color and render.

http://www.fractalforums.com/gallery/?sa=view;id=607


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: Cyclops on August 31, 2009, 02:50:29 PM
Food for thought eh!


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: David Makin on October 31, 2009, 04:27:24 AM
Found this a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbmQaQWyz-k


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: Buddhi on October 31, 2009, 12:28:32 PM
Similarity is amazing!!!! :worm:


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: bib on November 06, 2009, 09:03:52 PM
nice broccoli at 1:30 in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozcRbMLBE4


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: Cyclops on November 28, 2009, 10:15:06 PM
nice broccoli at 1:30 in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozcRbMLBE4
Fabulous video! I'm gonna post that on facebook!


Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: oftakofta on December 28, 2009, 02:07:51 PM
Just a quick thought experiment. If one were to take high resolution time-lapse photographs of growing Romanesco broccoli, would it be possible to calculate the in vivo growth rate of the plant cells using the best-fitting formula for mathematical Romanesco? Let us suppose we can capture detail down to the diffraction limit of optical microscopy (~0.2µm, disregard that you actually can see the cells dividing at this magnification). Alternatively, given the time-lapse growth data, could you derive a formula for the shape of Romanesco assuming 1 iteration = 1 cell division cycle?



Title: Re: I had fractals for lunch (Romanesco cabbage)
Post by: David Makin on December 28, 2009, 02:17:35 PM
Just a bit of fun with a Juliabulb:

"Romanescu Asparagus"

(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2009/358/2/d/Romanescu_Asparagus_by_MakinMagic.jpg)

If no image above then look here:

http://makinmagic.deviantart.com/art/Romanescu-Asparagus-147841840 (http://makinmagic.deviantart.com/art/Romanescu-Asparagus-147841840)