To all the Keyshooters and genuine users of the forum, I offer this rather over-engineered snowflake to wish a Merry Christmas and a fruitful 2014, especially those among us who've struggled in 2013 (this means you, TMM).
Now, talking of hexes....to all you spammers - I hope this image induces a recurring dream in which you have to follow the tightening sequence for this 4000-bolt pattern under a particularly exacting Chief Engineer. Then, when you've secured the last of the fasteners, I hope you realise you've forgotten the gasket. Finally, may the excess of erectile enhancers in your bloodstream explode bids of your anatomy all over your cheap watch.
Nice fractal! ;)
Hilarious comment about Sirs Spamalot btw. ;D
Best wishes to you too.
Dries
Cheers, Vries.
In a former life, I was a bit of a fractal nut. So the old me would have been very interested that the number of bolts in an n-th level fractal of this type is 1+1½(5n-1-1).
For a still on my machine, I thought six levels (4687 bolts) was enough. Of course, if Santa brought me a Boxx like Speedster's, I could go higher (level 10 = 2,929,687 – almost as complex as the Walschaerts mechanisms on one of his trains ;)) and do an animated zoom-in.
Nature, of course, is not limited by processing cores. Check out these stunning images of real-life snowflakes.
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html (http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html)
Quote from: NormanHadley on December 17, 2013, 03:43:53 AM
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Nature, of course, is not limited by processing cores. Check out these stunning images of real-life snowflakes.
http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html (http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html)
It's alive... or is it? ;)
Dries
Oh, hell. Just noticed I typoed your name, Dries. Sorry about that. :-[
Couldn't resist tweaking the materials for a smoother look.
That looks great Norman. Meryy Christmas to all!
Indeed dillster, merry x-mas to all
Martin
Happy Holidays my friend.
I hope you have a safe season.
Enjoy
Tim