Complex-looking fractal structures can be described with a simple formula, with very small amount of data and fractals are everywhere in nature. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern
For those who find that interesting, read up on L-Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system). There was a great free ebook on this a while ago, but unfortunately the title (and URL) escapes me at the moment.
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Complex-looking fractal structures can be described with a simple formula, with very small amount of data and fractals are everywhere in nature. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern
For those who find that interesting, read up on L-Systems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system). There was a great free ebook on this a while ago, but unfortunately the title (and URL) escapes me at the moment.