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A tesseract, also called 8-cell or octachoron, is the four-dimensional analog of a (three-dimensional) cube where motion along the fourth dimension is often a representation for bounded transformations of the cube through time.
The structure is a cube punctured by over 5000 long thin windows that project from all its surfaces and lift it off the ground. The cube, which measures 2.4 x 2.4 metres, is precision-machined from 15mm anodised aluminium and the windows are 18mm square-section aluminium tubes glazed with transparent orange acrylic. As the long thin windows all point at the exact centre of the cube, it only takes a single light source, located at this central point, to send light through every tube, causing the windows to glow orange. A small number of them also project into the cube to form seating.
Ferns are fractal in nature and can be modeled on a computer by using a recursive algorithm. A frond from a fern is a miniature replica of the whole: not identical, but similar in nature.
A green cauliflower, in the B. oleracea Botrytis group, called "Romanesco" has been commercially available in Europe since about 1990. Its head is an example of a fractal image in nature, repeating itself in self-similarity at varying scales.
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