If anyone close to you has lost their mind recently, we might be
able to help. Hidden off the beaten track within Parque Nacional
de Doñana (Doñana National Park), AndalucÃa is something that
bears a remarkable resemblance to the human brain.
Discovered by photographer Hector Garrido during an investigation
of the National Park on behalf of the Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones CientÃficas (Scientific Investigation Council),
this awesome image shows natural fractals from vegetation at the
end of a small river delta. It looks as if the clearing was once a
small lake within the marshland but has since dried up considerably,
leaving a brain-like appearance to the landscape.
Although not an exact fractal by definition – the shapes aren’t identically
replicated throughout the pattern – the clearing does have self-repeating
quality of a fractal, as does the brain. These other images by the
same photographer in various other parks in the south ofSpain
demonstrates just how often the fractal pattern is seen throughout
nature, something we wouldn’t be able to spot within the help of these
great images.
Located within the provinces of Huelva, Sevilla and Cádiz, Parque
Nacional de Doñana has grown around the delta of the Guadalquivir
River and is one of Europe’s most prominent wetland reserves and
conservation centers. It covers an immense 1,300 sq km area and is
popular with a huge variety of migrating birds, including five
threatened bird species and the critically endangered Iberian Lynx.
