Tag Archives: nature

2024-01-15
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Lioconcha hieroglyphica is a saltwater clam that makes cellular automata-style patterns in some kind of hieroglyphical or cuneiform way. Also see the textile cone, the lioconcha castrensis and the nature tag here.

2019-06-19
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Pyrite cubic crystals, square nature.

2014-09-25
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Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico. Nature goes blocky.

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2014-08-26
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Cross sea at Île de Ré, France. The waves of two weather systems meet and create a dangerous grid.

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2014-07-16
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Fingal’s Cave in Scotland. Good example of how nature’s hexagonal bias can produce blocky shapes.

2014-06-28
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Devils Postpile, USA. Nature’s own hexagonal tessellations, square blocks and straight pillars.

2014-05-05
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Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Although humans are arguably the most digital animal, sometimes nature does some very square things.

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2013-07-17
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Snake scales, nature text-mode locomotion.

2013-03-07
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The Textile Cone is a venomous cone snail that can kill humans. Some people have called it the Textmode Killer of the Sea. Pic from Wikipedia.