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smalltalk
29-11-2003, 04:47
To make this a bit like a test, I have included one pic, that is obviously not a tree. :D

http://212.227.80.187/killtime/superstition/graph/naturaltree.gif

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/smalltalk/2003112934417_kidney2.jpg
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http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/smalltalk/2003112933340_silhouette-tree.jpg
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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/life_sciences/health/pharmacy/images/lung%20for%20web.gif

http://212.227.80.187/killtime/superstition/graph/mast.gif

http://web.uvic.ca/philosophy/sophia/tree.jpg

http://www.calacademy.org/research/people/people/images/corall.jpg

http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~greg.c/tree.jpg

http://searchdatabase.techtarget.com/WhatIs/images/b-tree.gif

http://212.227.80.187/killtime/superstition/graph/evolution.gif

Sween
29-11-2003, 08:31
godamnit, i suck at tests!

Skyfish
29-11-2003, 10:34
Beautiful human brain there Smalltalk :D

Plux
29-11-2003, 11:13
So what's this about, really?

col
29-11-2003, 11:36
Nice set of lungs

ERIKK
29-11-2003, 11:59
Is the telegraph 'paal' (dutch) in English a telegraph tree?

col
29-11-2003, 13:14
Nope - its a telegraph pole in English

ERIKK
29-11-2003, 13:16
quote:Originally posted by col

Nope - its a telegraph pole in English
Well, if you count out that the wood is from a tree, this one might not be a 'tree' I guess...

Or am I wrong?

Grille
29-11-2003, 13:30
quote:Originally posted by ERIKK
Well, if you count out that the wood is from a tree, this one might not be a 'tree' I guess...

well... take it unliteral
it's a picture anyways...:D

quote:
Or am I wrong?

yeah, test failed...[tongue][lol]

Skyfish
29-11-2003, 14:39
quote:Nice set of lungs

its not lungs, its a heart !
[lol]

ERIKK
29-11-2003, 14:41
quote:Originally posted by Skyfish

quote:Nice set of lungs

its not lungs, its a heart !
[lol]
[hmm] ...the image is called lung, Sky and the telegraph pole is called 'mast'

ProPain
29-11-2003, 17:16
I ;d say those are lungs. All the small veins are there to get the oxygen from the air. You wont see that in your heart, which is a pumping muscle with 4 basic chambers iirc.

Pastorius
29-11-2003, 22:02
quote:
Is the telegraph 'paal' (dutch) in English a telegraph tree?


Hey - whos talking bout me behind my back [hmm]







Paal being my name and all [:p]

Lt. Killer M
30-11-2003, 18:37
tree: [botanical] perennial plant with lignified supraterran parts......

[:p]

smalltalk
01-12-2003, 03:17
quote:Originally posted by Sween

godamnit, i suck at tests!

Nah, it was just a teenyweeny bit of a test.
But I reckon that you're a sucker for good pics, aren't you?
quote:col
Nice set of lungs
Yeah. Obviously a non-smoker.
quote:Killer
tree: [botanical] perennial plant with lignified supraterran parts......
Spoilsport.[tongue]
quote:Plux
So what's this about, really?
A picture says more than a lot of words. So instead of talking about how to maximize spatial or logical structures for a maximum surface, I have one more pic.

http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/smalltalk/200312115147_lena_low.jpg
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As for the test:
quote:Grille
well... take it unliteral
it's a picture anyways...

Well, I guess Grille wins for delivering the smart-ass answer. [8]
A tree is just a word for an underlying concept. But the pics are just electrons/photons flowing from your monitor.

col
01-12-2003, 11:04
A tree is just electrons / quarks and photons too. ;)

Skyfish
01-12-2003, 11:44
[lol]
Nice one Col !

smalltalk
03-12-2003, 22:11
Sorry Grille, but I guess your award has to be passed on to Col...

The above are nice examples about how nature finds fairly good solutions. I feel it is amazing, how the same structure has evolved independently . Sort of a homomorphism. [Not sure if there is a word like that.]

Another example for this is the invention of flight by nature.

(As usual, I included one pic, that doesn't fly.)

http://www.nrossiter.supanet.com/ylg/Essaouira,%20Morocco,%20April%202000,%202s%20wing. jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/stories/m78599.jpg

http://ag.udel.edu/departments/ento/insectdb/images/cd1_21sm.gif

http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~mmasters/batlab/wing.jpg

http://www.gridclub.com/fact_gadget/images/qa2c03f38.jpg

http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/biodiversity/flyingfish/flyingfsh%231.jpg

http://www.sansibar-tauchen.de/photos/manta_rochen.jpg

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/flying-wing-yb49.jpg

http://www.debhoeffner.com/religious/wing-t.jpg

http://www.dkonline.co.uk/animal/images/birds_diagram.gif

http://biology.uoregon.edu/reference/treeid/2-32.jpeg

http://biology.uoregon.edu/reference/treeid/3-3.jpeg


Another implication of this all:
I'd expect higher alien life forms, if there are any, to have evolved similiar characteristics, if at all possible.

Lt. Killer M
03-12-2003, 22:20
convergent evolutiononary pressures lead to analogous structures, says the biologist ;) They CAN be homologous, too, if they are variations of the same basic structure - like a bats and birds wings (both are forelimbs)

Grille
03-12-2003, 23:40
quote:Originally posted by smalltalk

Sorry Grille, but I guess your award has to be passed on to Col...



No prob, I was about to make the same suggestion.

Sween
04-12-2003, 21:11
how am i supposed to moderate if i have no idea what the hell you're talking about? [cry]

[lol]

smalltalk
04-12-2003, 22:56
Grille, yeah, Col will be pleased by the honor!?

Sween: sorry, but moderators are supposed to have ideas.
And graphics pros are supposed to have a vivid optical imagination.

After all, your brain isn't a walnut, is it?

http://www.cogneuro.ox.ac.uk/images/brain.gif

http://www.vegsoc.org/news/2000/21cv/walnut.jpg


For those who thought of Hearts: here are two pics of a heart:

http://www.iun.edu/~biologyn/P262%20Web%20Pages/EX-03%20Heart%20Anatomy/EX%203%20-%20Heart%20AnatomyPCT67.GIF

While it is from the heart, this looks like a cabbage to me:
http://www.iun.edu/~biologyn/P262%20Web%20Pages/EX-03%20Heart%20Anatomy/EX%203%20-%20Heart%20AnatomyPCT69.GIF

Pastorius
05-06-2005, 00:54
"nature calls" (Melifluous, 04.06.2005@23:55)

Melifluous
05-06-2005, 00:57
quote:Originally posted by ERIKK

Is the telegraph 'paal' (dutch) in English a spammy bastard?



I guess so.

Bit strong from you though ERIKK [:O]

Melifluous

smalltalk
05-06-2005, 19:11
quote:Originally posted by Melifluous
Bit strong from you though ERIKK [:O]

Man, I was really embarassed back then for my brain/walnut post.

But you know like some people are, they tend to post first and think later.

I always try to think before I think now. But then my conclusion is that I only think to be thinking.