❄ Winter and Geometry ❄

 Winter is one of my favourite seasons because of the cozy weather, the landscape and the events that take place in this season like Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year. The family gatherings and these moments are great and I love spending time with my family and friends. ❄

GEOMETRY IN THIS SEASON

I also noticed that Geometry takes place in this season too, in particular as fractals in some elements like snowflakes, one of the most representative elements of the season because of the snow and the cold weather. The snowflakes come in so many different shapes and forms, every snowflake is different and unique which makes it even more magical, it includes a lot of different shapes including geometric figures. ❄

Scientist used to think that all snowflakes were de same and later on by doing some investigations by looking at the flakes using a microscopy which is actually really difficult because of the size of the flakes that are so small and the way that they are made of ice and it takes so little time to melt. This give scientist less time than usual to investigate some elements. ❄

Here is where we start talking about fractals, these figures which is a subset of the Eclidean space in a fractal dimension, they do appear the same at different scales,but they are actually successive magnifications of the Mandelbrot set which was purposed in 1975. The fractals show similar patterns all over their surface, this property is called self-similarity which also means expanding or unfolding symmetry. ❄

There are also more elements that include fractals such as clouds, the coast of a country and even the spirals in cabbage.❄

Here we have some excellent examples of these other elements:

Article: Great Britain coasts with Fractals

Video: The Science of Snowflakes

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