Friday Cephalopod: All glory to the hypno-'pod

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8880/52771formattedhypnotoadfg8.gif

Is it just me, or does that pic look a lot like a Mandlebrodt fractal image?

Eh... This show's been going down hill since the third season. *continues to stare at the screen*

@Blaidd Drwg

That was my first thought, too. You know you need to get out of the house more when you see Mandelbrot fractals in a humble cephalopod.

I can't believe PZ would stoop tAAALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-POD!

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David said:

That was my first thought, too. You know you need to get out of the house more when you see Mandelbrot fractals in a humble cephalopod.

Mine too! Still it could be worse, at least no-one's seen the Virgin Mary in there yet!

I do see something resembling a grilled cheese sandwich, however.

That was my first thought, too. You know you need to get out of the house more when you see Mandelbrot fractals in a humble cephalopod.

Mine too! Still it could be worse, at least no-one's seen the Virgin Mary in there yet!

She's there. Rotate the cephalopod about a sixth of a revolution counterclockwise and zoom in a few times, then if you squint a bit she'll appear to you on the left. Zoom into her right nostril and another Virgin will appear.

Pardon my ignorance (as much as I love cephalopods I skipped marine biology and became a mere librarian instead), but the "hypno-'pod" looks like what I've commonly heard called a "mimic octopus". Or is that a different species? If it's one of them pesky mimickers then it should come as no surprise if anyone sees the Virgin Mary or a grilled cheese sandwich or PZ Myers or a grilled cheese sandwich with PZ Myers standing next to the Virgin Mary and asking the obvious question: if there was a Virgin Mary, how the heck does anyone know what she looked like?

Little know fact: the Holy Spirit visited Mary in the shape of a hypno-'pod.

Is it just me, or does that pic look a lot like a Mandlebrodt fractal image?

Or... is it the Mandelbrot fractal that looks like the octopus?

(stares into space for the next three hours)

Zoom into her right nostril and another Virgin will appear.

If only it were that simple to make virigns appear.

(rimshot)

Hey-yo!

"Is it just me, or does that pic look a lot like a Mandlebrodt fractal image?"

It looks like some sort of fractal, that's for sure!

Check out this guy, some of his videos remind me of tentacled sea creatures.

Here's a little more information about the critter: Pharyngula's Friday Cephalopod: Octopus abaculus. It's relatively new.

Just for interest sake, this octopus is no longer in the genus Octopus, but rather has been moved to the genus Abdopus.

No no no, it's "all glory to the hypnosquiALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOPOD

PeeZed, do you get kickbacks from Mark Norman? How many copies of his book have you helped move? Dagon knows, when my thirty pieces of silver come from Bush to help prime the economic pump, I will buy a copy.

Why the heck does everyone keep postingALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOPOD