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Tabular Iceberg, care of BBC
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Although it looks like the future on a planet that is totally colonized by Megastructures and
Ecumenopolises, this is a pretty common thing called a tabular iceberg. Nature is short on straight lines and definitely right angles, although
Andy Goldsworthy would disagree.
Ice, however, is good for straight lines. I do recall a drawing by a Japanese woodcut artist in a book about Modern Art. It was a frozen lake, just a bunch of straight lines, and predated the more abstract things to come out of the early 20th century.
Notes:
Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Oct 2018, BBC
On Right Angles
Or why we tend to perceive right angles everywhere
Network Address, 2012
You Love Right Angles
AKA I'm Not a Right Angle You're a Right Angle!
Network Address, 2012
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