This is what happens when you plant trees in a very windy place, where the winds blow 24/7 all year ‘round. The trees cannot win that war, yet these managed to survive by bending and twisting to the unrelenting wind.
This is Slope Point. It is the southernmost tip on New Zealand's South Island. The airstreams loop the vast circumpolar Southern Ocean unobstructed for 2000 miles and then they smash into land. Here. They are so persistent and so violent that the trees are perpetually warped and twisted into these crooked, windswept shapes.
Under natural conditions, tree seeds would never get past the sprout stage here, but New Zealand sheep farmers planted saplings to give their sheep a bit of shelter from the wind. Read about Slope Point and see more pictures of its trees at Kuriositas. -via the Presurfer
(Image credit: Flickr user Anita Gould)
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In the Mandelbulb paragraph, there's a "#D" where I think you meant "3D", but that's a minor quibble. Great article!
Sorry, that's not correct, unless the isosceles triangle also just happens to be a RIGHT triangle (the hypotenuse is the side opposite of the right angle). An isosceles triangle is simply a triangle with two sides of the same length (an equilateral triangle is also an isosceles triangle, incidentally).
Btw, "isosceles" just means that at least two sides of the triangle are the same length--the third could be longer, or shorter, or even the same size.
So, you could have a very wide angle between the two same-length sides (as in your spidron) or
the angle could be very narrow (think of the top part of a capital A)
or they could all be the same length--every equilateral is also isosceles.
(But *not* every isosceles triangle is equilateral--just as every square is a rectangle ie, has 4 right angles, but not every rectangle is a square.)
best regards, Daniel Erdély
Daniel Erdely is in fact the originator of spidrons and some other related forms Here's his main site: http://spidron.szinhaz.org/