Fractals in nature, eh?

It's enough to get some people believing in a divine creator, isn't it? Whilst evolutionary forces appear to encourage organisms to move towards perfection over time, the fittest hardly have to appear perfect and can even sometimes appear far from it (off the top of my head: the sloth).

Sedentary plant-life follow the apparent path of the sun across the heavens (of course, it's the earth that's really doing the orbiting). As they do so, they've evolved to succeed by growing at optimal rates and in optimal ways.

You have the branching fractals that allow the plant to get as much light as they're able to whilst also aiding gaseous exchange. And that's through countless 'experiments' having been conducted in all those generations that have been bearing fruit (pardon the pun) for half a billion years or so.

And then I clicked Fuente and immediately regretted it! ;)

Interesting stuff!