Fractal Cabbage

[dirtyhippy420]

Switzerland's fractal supermarket cabbages

John Walker, an expat in Switzerland, writes this lovely appreciation for the Romanesco cabbage, a grocery-store vegetable that is amazing in its fractal complexity and loveliness:

Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. But of course, then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering.


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dirtyhippy420 Reviewed by dirtyhippy420 on 10-17-2005. Fractal Cabbage Switzerland's fractal supermarket cabbages John Walker, an expat in Switzerland, writes this lovely appreciation for the Romanesco cabbage, a grocery-store vegetable that is amazing in its fractal complexity and loveliness: Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an Rating: 5

[Ganj]

that's amazing! it resembles something that would live in the deepest, darkest caverns of the oceans, but it's grown right here on land. beautiful.

[3 Sheets To The Wind]

Switzerland's fractal supermarket cabbages

John Walker, an expat in Switzerland, writes this lovely appreciation for the Romanesco cabbage, a grocery-store vegetable that is amazing in its fractal complexity and loveliness:

Nearly exact self-similar fractal forms occur do in nature, but I'd never seen such a beautiful and perfect example until, some time after moving to Switzerland, I came across a chou Romanesco like the one above in a grocery store. This is so visually stunning an object that on first encounter it's hard to imagine you're looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artefact created with molecular nanotechnology. But of course, then you realise that vegetables are created with molecular nanotechnology, albeit the product of earthly evolution, not extraterrestrial engineering.


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Damn, i want some!

Looks very nice and strange

[dirty raider]

Thats one sexy cabage, I couldn't bare to eat that. I'd get it encased in a vacuum sealed cabinet and put in on the wall.