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Tglad
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« on: January 21, 2011, 01:15:39 AM »
The best example of the tree class would be a... tree I suppose-

As long as the branches aren't touching each other.

More generally you could think of a tree fractal as taking a big lump of clay then continually adding smaller lumps onto it, taking care to not to form any loops.
So this is a tree


And this


Even this stock photo of a rock is a tree... small lumps on bigger lumps-


Can you think of any other examples?
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 01:58:14 AM »
The first couple divisions of a ferilized egg
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2011, 01:18:08 PM »
Hi
Great series of posts Tglad !

Here are some more "tree fractals": river deltas as seen from above in Google Earth:





Rivers = Horizontal trees

Also this image of the Sahara desert, a hybrid of trees and cluster?
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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2011, 11:02:05 PM »
Nice examples, and the desert scene is, well, strange isn't it, never seen that before. Does look like a hybrid of tree and cluster, a cluster of trees, in 2d.
A normal hilly or mountain landscape is also a hybrid, tree+shell as its bumps+dips on larger bumps+dips.

I almost forgot our most famous tree fractal-
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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 12:32:18 AM »
the romanescou is somehow like an inverted tree wink
a negative one cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2011, 11:53:15 PM »
Crashing waves are a tree fractal from underwater


Or if you think of the water as the fractal then it is a shell.
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« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2011, 01:09:16 PM »
cumulonimbus-clouds?
Physical categories> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud
a cloud can't be a shell, no? never! but it could be a cluster..


check also fractus type  smiley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lowcloudsymbols.gif
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« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2011, 12:58:55 AM »
Yes nice example.
I don't think a cloud would ever be a shell as shells are sort of recursively concave if that makes any sense,
but they could be a cluster, maybe like this
http://image36.webshots.com/36/2/94/10/2164294100064685528hrhvgt_fs.jpg
A cluster of trees.

They are also a cluster in the sense of being a cluster of water droplets.
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« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2011, 03:40:22 AM »
Quote from: cKleinhuis on January 24, 2011, 12:32:18 AM
the romanescou is somehow like an inverted tree wink
a negative one cheesy
quit being so negative
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« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2011, 01:30:13 AM »
Shell fractals seem to be exactly the opposite to tree fractals, and vice versa.
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