These Grand Canyon images are filled with natural fractals, nature pictures usually are. After downloading and viewing my associated presentation, you should be able to recognize similarity in them. Practice looking for some of the highlighted examples from the presentation. Look for canyon joints: 1) corner points; 2) blocks in the Canyon walls and rim; 3) horizontal lines/ vertical lines/ blunt faces; and 4) falling blocks. Look for similarity in tree limbs, the way larger sections of limbs resemble smaller sections. Clouds resemble their neighbors in texture and overall shape, and each cloud is composed of a lot of little clouds. In general, look for the same shapes on different scales, for shapes within shapes. Consider the ruggedness of the Canyon rim, how shorter and shorter units of measure will affect the length and complexity of the rim boundary. If you have already seen the presentation, do you recall what the Sierpinski tetrahedra have in common with nature? The camera used was a 2 megapixcel Fujifilm Finepix. I have put the images up full-sized (1600 x 1200 pixcels) at medium quality, so while detail was lost in the compression, they should be big enough to use as screensavers or desktop backgrounds for large-size monitors.

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