With these new mathematical techniq

With these new mathematical techniques scientists have been able to construct accurate models of a wide variety of irregular natural shapes and in so doing have discovered the pervasive ap­ pearance of fractals. Of all those, the fractal patterns of clouds, which originally inspired Mandelbrot to search for a new mathe­ matical language, are perhaps the most stunning. Their self-simi­ larity stretches over seven orders of magnitude, which means that the border of a cloud magnified ten million times still shows the same familiar shape.