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Romanesco is a vegetable which is breathtaking in its intricate, geometric form. Its mesmerising beauty is almost unbelievable in something organic or ‘of nature’. It is however a perfect example of a natural fractal, whereby its form is replicated over and over in a logarithmic spiral, so each bud is composed of smaller perfectly replicated buds.
In other words the buds form a detailed pattern that repeats itself ad infinitum. Since a vegetable cannot go on forever it is what a mathematician would call an approximate fractal. If you study a head of Romanesco up close you will notice a spiral emanating from the centre point from which the buds descend down getting larger and larger. This is a fibonacci spiral, a series of arcs whose radii follow the fibonacci sequence.
