The Biomimicry Institute defines biomimicry as "the science and art of emulating Nature's best biological ideas to solve human problems." In this class we explored biomimicry in structuring cross genre prose. Structure in fiction is often overlooked, or understood in only traditional terms, but in this class we looked critically at this and discovered how nature might inform different structures in short prose.
Fractals: "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole." --Mandelbrot
The Golden Ratio: the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to (=) the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one.
∏ (pi): a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean space; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius. The numbers after the decimal, as of yet, do not show any signs of repetition as a random number should. Though this is really not a number found in nature, it's infinite, non-repetitive nature suggests fractals or the infinite definition and detail of nature to me.
