The fractal geometry of nature, indeed

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If this stuff is for real, it's really impressive. (Link from Aleks's twitter.)

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Gorgeous...

Yeah, my first thought was: How could they make these look so much like real broccoli, cauliflower, etc? Then I realized that, if broccoli and cauliflower can do it, an algorithm should be able to do so also!