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What makes a perfect 3D tree?

2 pointsby NewHatMattabout 4 years ago

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peter_d_shermanabout 4 years ago
Some time after learning about Trees in Computer Science, and IFS (Iterated Function Systems, aka Fractals) in Math, I was one day contemplating trees in the real world, and I thought to myself -- &quot;You know, trees in the real world -- might be Nature&#x27;s way of holding information... But, of course, we as humans -- have yet to figure out how to parse that information...&quot;<p>That would also, incidentally, apply to all plant life, too...<p>One good example of this (to be able to have an intuitive cognition about it) would be the Barnsley (aka Fractal) Fern:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barnsley_fern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Barnsley_fern</a><p>Also, for another intuitive cognition -- watch videos of plant growth, most notably tree growth -- sped up many thousands of times -- the branches of the tree appear to move in very strange ways!<p>The tree looks alive!<p>After you&#x27;ve seen a video like that, compare this to such biological entities as nerve cells, the way that nerve cells branch out, etc.