Natural and Maths Sculpture

The beautiful snow here in Iceland has enabled some great shots of the Sculpture System 5 sculpture here.  As the snow was skafrenningur (blowing snow, the Icelanders really do have a lot of terms for snow!), there were also some beautiful wind carved natural sculptures.  A nice exercise in fluid dynamics to understand, or just beautiful.

Carved Mountains

Carved Mountains

Sculpture in the Snow 1

Sculpture in the Snow 1

Detailed wind work

Detailed wind work

Sculpture in the snow 2

Sculpture in the snow 2

Lines of wind

Lines of wind

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