A trio of Diatoms on the surface of an amphipod, surrounded by bacteria.  This animation was created with a Scanning Electron Microscope and shows features as small as one millionth of a meter.  View it in high resolution here (22mb gif).

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Pattern resulting from a lightning strike to a sidewalk

(Source: malformalady, via freshphotons)

A Fractal is a pattern which displays self-similarity on multiple scales.

Landsat Image of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh.

High Res (23 mb)

(Source: infinity-imagined, via spacelights)

Glowing Canopy by Thorstenator

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Musical Acoustics

Scale of harmonics

(via likeaphysicist)

Sep 29th, 2012 8:40am

A set of Chladni standing wave patterns generated in sand on the surface of a vibrating metal plate.  The sand collects in the areas of the plate where the waves in the plate cancel each other completely.  Each resonant wave pattern occurs at a specific frequency.  This set was originally published by John Tyndall in 1869, it has been reorganized to show the periodic families that emerge as the frequency of the vibration increases.

The Periodic Table of Electron Orbitals

(via subatomiconsciousness)

A 1-dimensional standing wave.

(Source: intothecontinuum)

A 2-dimensional traveling wave.

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A 3-dimensional standing wave.

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A wave and a circle are both two-dimensional projections of a helix.

(Source: infinity-imagined)

The orbits of the moons and planets form a 4-dimensional fractal helix in spacetime.

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