Spontaneous fractals appear when you pull things apart. Viscous fingering (Saffman–Taylor instability) occurs when a less viscous fluid is pushed into a more viscous fluid.
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Sounds of the Mandelbrot set
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This equation (the logistic map) will change how you see the world
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Toward a grand unified theory of snowflakes
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Our first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, is still a mystery. Despite some speculation, it's not a spaceship... but it might be a three-dimensional fractal snowflake.
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