As the Crow Flies: Por Siempre

....Ongoing Fascinations....

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....Infinite Patterns....

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Gemma Baylay

"an astronomical compendium, signed by Humfrey Cole, made in 1568 for the Elizabethan printer and publisher Richard Jugge. … The compendium includes a quadrant, room for drawing instruments, a compass, a universal equinoctial sundial, a table of latitudes of towns and an incomplete calendar."

http://steampunkpics.blogspot.com/2008/11/astrolabe.html

Yosuke Goda

http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/12/toshiyuki-konishi/

attractive

http://www.crystalinks.com/ouroboros.html

Illustration

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”--Albert Einstein

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"Before Mandelbrot" there was Escher 1939

Vortex Basics

"For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of mathematics or to that of art"

– M.C. Escher

Escher's Grid

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Mingling Brain Toys:

Intelligent Design

Watchmaker

Biomimicry

by Robert Steven Connett

Infinity Triangle by French collective Paper Donut

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Romanesco Broccoli

This variant form of cauliflower is the ultimate fractal vegetable. Its pattern is a natural representation of the Fibonacci or golden spiral, a logarithmic spiral where every quarter turn is farther from the origin by a factor of phi, the golden ratio.

From sea shells and spiral galaxies to the structure of human lungs, the patterns are all around us.

Fractals are patterns formed from chaotic equations and contain self-similar patterns of complexity increasing with magnification. If you divide a fractal pattern into parts you get a nearly identical reduced-size copy of the whole.

The mathematical beauty of fractals is that infinite complexity is formed with relatively simple equations. By iterating or repeating fractal-generating equations many times, random outputs create beautiful patterns that are unique, yet recognizable.....

an eyeful