"JimKramer" wrote
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/image/68336571
It is the egg case for a Green Lynx Spider Legs of which ar in the the
background.

It has much the same form as the sprout from a potato
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/.../potato21d.jpg
http://research.cip.cgiar.org/potato...jpg_medium.jpg

That looks a bit like roman cauliflower
http://www.notthisorthat.com/sblog/u...auliflower.jpg

That looks a bit like a Julia set [sort of a Mandelbrot set turned inside
out]
http://www.fractalartcontests.com/1998/images/258.gif


So what do all these have to do with the equation for the Mandelbrot
set:

2
Z = Z + Z
n+1 n n

Where Z is a complex number: x + yi, where i is the square root of -1

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mjmcguff...mandelbrot.gif

Which looks a bit like the egg case for a green Lynx spider.

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