Self-similarity seems to be one of the fundamental geometrical construction principles in nature. For millions of years, evolution has shaped... Read More
Self-similarity seems to be one of the fundamental geometrical construction principles in nature. For millions of years, evolution has shaped organisms based on the survival of the fittest. In many plants and also organs of animals, this has led to fractal branching structures. Many natural shapes possess the property that they are irregular but still obey some scaling power law, introducing some element of randomness into the otherwise rigorously organized classical fractals.