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krakenslayer
19-Sep-2009, 07:27 PM
I took this photo yesterday:

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs260.snc1/10731_285610955234_547205234_9021824_5906234_n.jpg

Let's hear some suggestions :D
SymphonicX
19-Sep-2009, 07:35 PM
Coral Reef....!
Danny
19-Sep-2009, 07:44 PM
a cactus.
krakenslayer
19-Sep-2009, 08:03 PM
Good guesses, but nope... :D
axlish
19-Sep-2009, 08:33 PM
Conch shells painted mustard yellow and arranged just so?
krakenslayer
19-Sep-2009, 08:41 PM
Conch shells painted mustard yellow and arranged just so?

Nice suggestion, but no. I don't have the patience to do anything like that. :p

Hint: it's a naturally occurring structure - I didn't arrange it, paint it or edit the photo in any way - I just snapped it as is.
MaximusIncredulous
19-Sep-2009, 09:28 PM
Stalactites or stalagmites?
krakenslayer
19-Sep-2009, 09:30 PM
Stalactites or stalagmites?

Nuh-uh! :D

Another hint: it was photographed in my kitchen.
triste realtą
19-Sep-2009, 09:49 PM
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6002798/2/istockphoto_6002798-cauliflower-roman.jpg

Romanesco broccoli/Roman cauliflower. I had to go look up the name but I knew where I'd seen the picture since it was just a few months ago. I would like to know how it tastes compared to regular broccoli.
krakenslayer
19-Sep-2009, 09:57 PM
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/6002798/2/istockphoto_6002798-cauliflower-roman.jpg

Romanesco broccoli/Roman cauliflower. I had to go look up the name but I knew where I'd seen the picture since it was just a few months ago. I would like to know how it tastes compared to regular broccoli.

YAY! Well done!!

It came in a vegetable box that my girlfriend bought yesterday. The only time I'd ever seen anything like it before was in a physics textbook - those shapes are fractals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal). Each of the little cones is made up of smaller cones, which are made up of smaller cones, which are made up of... etc. etc.

I've not tasted it yet. I'll let you know what it's like when I do, provided it doesn't cause me to fall into some weird infinite vegetable paradox. :D
Danny
19-Sep-2009, 10:16 PM
YAY! Well done!!

It came in a vegetable box that my girlfriend bought yesterday. The only time I'd ever seen anything like it before was in a physics textbook - those shapes are fractals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal). Each of the little cones is made up of smaller cones, which are made up of smaller cones, which are made up of... etc. etc.

I've not tasted it yet. I'll let you know what it's like when I do, provided it doesn't cause me to fall into some weird infinite vegetable paradox. :D

i new it reminded me of something from a textbook!

IT TASTES OF SCIENCE!
triste realtą
19-Sep-2009, 10:18 PM
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8430/13575081l1pg.gif
capncnut
19-Sep-2009, 10:29 PM
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8430/13575081l1pg.gif
How did you get a direct image from Korticks brain? Neural interface?
Dtothe3
19-Sep-2009, 11:18 PM
I find when I turn my head sideways and peer at both images at once, my missus thinks I'm crazy.