[HN Gopher] Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)
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       Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899)
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-01-24 23:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (publicdomainreview.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (publicdomainreview.org)
        
       | emjoes1 wrote:
       | I have never heard of this. I did not see modern answer for this
       | phenomenon is, do we know?
        
         | pierrebai wrote:
         | Yes: Pareidolia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
        
           | DonaldFisk wrote:
           | There's more to it than that. Frost patterns on windows
           | really do resemble real plants such as ferns because both are
           | examples of Iterated Function Systems (see
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system).
        
           | rubylark wrote:
           | Also: synchronicity
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
        
           | emjoes1 wrote:
           | Lol and I thought this was a real phenomenon I have never
           | observed or heard of.
        
       | t8sr wrote:
       | Warning: engaging cranky old codemonkey mode.
       | 
       | Here's a functional website with the same PDF:
       | https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/m...
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       | You'd think a website about public domain PDFs would be able to
       | load the PDFs, but no. Both Chrome and Safari greet me with
       | multiple load errors, probably because the scan is being embedded
       | in an IFRAME and loading as a full-fledged HTML page from another
       | domain. Oh, but it manages a pop-up asking me to subscribe to
       | their newsletter.
       | 
       | Just use an <img>, why does everything have to be 10 layers of
       | javascript and iframes? If it's a PDF, then just link it. That's
       | what the 'H' in HTML is for.
        
         | CharlesW wrote:
         | > _Both Chrome and Safari greet me with multiple load
         | errors..._
         | 
         | FWIW, all appears to work fine for me in current versions of
         | both Safari and Chrome. I wonder what the difference might be?
        
           | BizarroLand wrote:
           | Worked well for me in Firefox with a boatload of extensions.
           | I wonder if they are using some extension that the site
           | doesn't like?
        
       | shever73 wrote:
       | Interesting. When I was a child, we lived in an old cottage with
       | single-glazed windows and no central heating. In winter, we often
       | had frost patterns of sycamore leaves on the windows. We had
       | sycamore trees in the field across from the house, but I can
       | remember being confused and wondering if someone was pressing the
       | leaves to the window during the night.
        
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