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I was in Clarkston this weekend, doing this thing, when I noticed something really cool about the huuj, ginormous bluffs that tower over the city.



Sierpinski triangles! Roughly. It doesn't come through on the image as well as I'd like. (It's a link to a much larger version, but even that one doesn't really capture it. And half of you won't be able to connect to cyphertext.net anyway.) But yay, found math!

Edit:
I was bored, so I highlighted the ridge lines. (No, I don't claim I was particularly impartial in the process. The point here is to share an experience, not to prove a theory.)

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There's a model of Mount St Helen's that is made up of just the ridge lines, everything else is hollow. It's very cool. I wish I had the software to convert DEMs into such models, it would make mountanous areas much more comprehensible.