Lichtenberg, and his figures...
I sometimes get questions from people asking me about what inspires me to make the mathy digital pictures like this one, this one and my personal favorite, this one.
The source, traced all the way back, goes to a guy named Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who miraculously discovered the strange fractal-figure created by high-voltage discharges of elecricity into surrounding insulating material. Perhaps the best example of this is seen from the world famous Z-Machine, the world’s largest X-ray generator.
It’s discharge looks like this:
Now that’s pretty sweet on it’s own… but what really gets me about this phenomena is that the discharge is not simply random — it is self-same, it’s pieces mimic it’s whole. In short, it is an electric fractal. In short, it is a living example of the macro and micro being one in the same.
I won’t go any further, but i think you understand what i’m getting at.