Fractal Plant Tumor

 

Studies of dynamic fractals (geometrical shapes that appear the same under magnification in time and in space) can help to describe the growth of things such as semiconductor films and tumors. Pictured here is a fractal plant growth. The name of the plant is Brassica oleracea or wild cabbage. The figure shows an undifferentiated tissue developed on an injured leaf.

(Courtesy of the Complex Systems Laboratory, under the leadership of Dr. Javier Galeano at the Technical University of Madrid.)

Reported by: Carlos Escudero in Physical Review Letters

Associated: Physics News Update 857, item 1

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