Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Soft Cliff

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A classic example of fractal self-similarity, the shore here demonstrates it from the horizontal angle too. Usually the shore is talked about being self-similar in terms of the birds-eye perspective. But here you see layers of sediment, cleaved faces, and alluvial patterns that would not look odd at many times this scale. This little sand shelf is just three feet or so. Fascinating! To me at least.

1 comments:

Bob Crowe said...

Our own Dr. Mandelbrot, right in our family! I think it's fascinating, too.