Fractured River
Fractured River–by Elisabeth Connelley
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It’s curious how similar patterns can be found in unrelated things. Two days ago I photographed the structure of fibers inside a dried out prickly pear cactus pad. Your picture, though taken in winter, reminds me of mine, taken in the heat of the summer.
Steven Schwartzman
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com
I would like to see this dried out prickly pear cactus pad please! I’ve bookmarked your site for browsing and reading, though couldn’t, in short order while I was enjoying lunch, locate the image to which you refer in your above comment.
I didn’t mean to be misleading: I haven’t posted any of yesterday’s pictures yet because I have quite a few others in my blog pipeline already. When I do post a picture of prickly pear pad fibers, I’ll be sure to let you know.
Steven Schwartzman
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com
Excellent!
Okay, here’s a picture of the inner structure of a prickly pear pad:
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/prickly-pear-pad-structure/
Do you see a similarity?
Yes! they DO appear to be similar!!
psst….I did an edit to your link, to make it open in a new tab so that the images can be viewed side by side!
Thank you for providing it!
Hooray for unexpected similarities!
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Oh yay! This morning I found this on my subscribed blogs updates for Salah, it’s called Nature’s Engineering and carries the same sort of fractal patterns that we have been sharing about here, and over at Steve Schwartzman’s blog Prickly Pear pad structure
In a comment at
http://portraitsofwildflowers.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/prickly-pear-pad-structure/
I just added a couple of links to books about patterns.
Someone else has come across the ice pattern:
http://galenleeds.com/2011/08/10/anatomy-of-a-photo-59-geometric-ice-anamoly/
OOOOOOOOOOO Thanks for the update!