plantimals.org

plantimals.org is my personal homepage. It also serves as a nexus for various aspects of my internet activity.

"What's the triangle thing?"

The image I use as the header and watermark is a slightly modified Sierpinski triangle. The Sierpinski triangle is a fractal that is made by dividing an equilateral triangle into 4 equal smaller equilateral triangles, and removing the middle, infinitely many times. So each of the 3 new triangles that are created by the dividing process, should themselves be subdivided. As you can see, I have not followed this formula, but have added the idea of spiraling into finer detail by increasing the number of subdivisions as one moves from left to right. Here is a larger version with 2 more levels of sub-division than the logo graphic: