Shape diversity

This weekend I did spend some time at the shores of the Great Belt. I have realised that the diversity of possible plant shapes are even larger than the diversity of shapes I created in my sketches of imaginary plants. I found a wide variation of beautiful entangled form, the result of an evolution guided by the harsh environment of salt, wind and sea.

OS X mathematics

I have just discovered a marvelous piece of software called Grapher. It is bundled with OS X and it creates beautiful graphs. As a start I created a graph of some of the solutions for a very simpel second order ODE: