On the right is a Bamana headdress. |
A qualitatitative comparison to
(three stages of) a fractal tree is obvious. |
A closer look - measuring the lengths of
successive branches and computing their ratios -
reveals the scaling is not quantitative. |
The main branch has length about 1.4. |
The secondary branches have length about 1.25. |
The tertiary branches has length about 0.8. |
So secondary/main = 0.9 |
and tertiary/secondary = 0.65 |
Of course, these measurements have some uncertainties, but still, the ratios appear different. |