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Sunday, April 04, 2010

Another kind of tree


Software's (non) future?
London, ON, April 2010


In honor of this week's tree-filled Thematic Photographic (click here to dive in), I'd like to share this decidedly different form of tree. Personal computers - in this case, my wife's Mac - use a tree-like hierarchy to manage software and files.

I've been living with one form of computerized tree or another since I pried my first machine apart oh so many years ago. But only now did it occur to me that I could have some photographic fun with it, too.

Your turn: Can you think of other, non-standard kinds of trees?

7 comments:

  1. http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2010/04/treeson.html

    Just an idea!

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  2. And of course there is the Family Tree, which can be a lot of fun, and sometimes rather amazing.

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  3. The family tree occurred to me, too. In my case, it's rather more like a family hedge - it seems to spread out amazingly rapidly, with some rather intertwined branches

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  4. How about a binary tree?

    http://skrud.net/files/binary_tree_boat_race.png

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  5. Math equations.
    Family trees
    Varicose veins.
    brain waves
    optic nerves
    branching into eternity
    philibusters

    what about undersea trees of seaweeds and various plants?

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