With their delicately branching form, akin to the recurring geometric patterns of fractals, which look
similar at different scales, ferns fascinated the Victorians.
Not exact matches
A technique derived from fractals provided him with just the tool he needed, creating a
similar kind of wobble
at different scales, as if combining a slight quiver in the fingers with a larger tremble in the wrist.
The first algorithm — the one that recognizes repeated forms — begins by comparing patches of the source image,
at different scales, and identifying those that seem to be visually
similar.
«The climate projections were created using
different downscaling methods, but the projected changes in climate among them are
similar at the regional
scale.»
We used the composite score (mean [± SD], 100 ± 16) to represent IQ, because it is
similar to the IQ score of other intelligence tests.18, 19 A
different examiner administered an abbreviated Stanford — Binet
Scale at each age.
Whereas the SAT Math scores are
at least
similar in
scale (200 - 800), the reading scores are significantly
different from one another.
Might the «weather» of orbital cycles be impacted by K / T but not the «climate» — perhaps the trajectories of obliquity, precession and eccentricity would become completely
different given sufficient time, but maybe with the same general character — periods and amplitudes and average values being
similar enough that a casual glance
at any given time segment (on the necessary
scale to characterize the orbital cycle «climate») wouldn't look like anything
different.