Yoji OOKATA :: Mysterious Underwater Art Discovered . [how a male puffer fish spends his time in Japan] - http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012...
Sep 19, 2012
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"Recently while on a dive near Amami Oshima in Japan, Ookata spotted rippling geometric sand patterns nearly six feet in diameter almost 80 feet below sea level. The artist is a small puffer fish only a few inches in length that swims tirelessly through the day and night to create these vast organic sculptures using the gesture of a single fin. The circles serve a variety of crucial ecological functions, the most important of which is to attract mates. The female fish is attracted to the hills and valleys within the sand and traverse them carefully to discover the male fish where the pair eventually lay eggs at the circle’s center, the grooves later acting as a natural buffer to ocean currents that protect the delicate offspring. Scientists learned that the more ridges contained within the sculpture resulted in a much greater likelihood of the fish pairing."
- Adriano
WHOA!
- AJ Batac
anyone know how such local micro-actions can result in a large macro pattern of such symmetry and beauty, i.e. what kind of "blueprint" did that tiny fish access? (Please don't say scaley fractal rules :-)
- Adriano