The way the snow collected on the fence reminded me of a histogram, though you might have to rotate your head 225 degrees to see it for yourself! As I took this in, I wondered why some chains of snow were longer than others. I also wondered what this representation of data said about the direction of snowfall.
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The snow, collecting in triangles on the fence like this, reminds me a bit of Sierpinski’s triangle.
You can almost see the equation of the generating curve of this purple vase: a piecewise function consisting of a vertical line segment, an arc of a circle, and then a line segment with negative slope.
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