Fractal Food

Fractal, or self-similar, structures are commonplace in nature, extending from the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation to the blood vessels in the human lung, but rarely do you encounter such perfection in structure as in Romanesco, a member of the plant species which includes broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage. This document is a photo gallery of the amazing hierarchical structure of Romanesco, along with a discussion of how such patterns can arise from the very simplest of computer programs, suggesting that nature is, in some sense, performing a computation.