Janne Uu

Uncanny artwork by mother nature. This foliage had grown on the rear window of our car during my working hours yesterday, with nothing out of the ordinary in the weather (–5°C and cloudy) to explain it. Yet in some subtle way the conditions must have been just right for it to occur.

#art #dustart #foliage #frostart #incidentalart #naturalart #ornament #pattern #windowart

Mar 14, 2024 at 9:20pmMastodon for Android
Show threadNoctisEqui 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇪🇹🏳️‍🌈Mar 15, 2024

@janneuu

Wow, that is beautiful, it would be lovely as wall-paper or a design on brocade.

Show threadUnripe CocktailsMar 15, 2024
@janneuu Now we know where William Morris got his patterns
Show threadskryMar 15, 2024

@janneuu I did a search to see if the frost pattern has a name and found a lot of beautiful photos: https://www.google.com/search?q=frost+patterns

"The patterns are the result of very tiny imperfections on the glass, such as scratches, specks of dust and salt, or the residue from washer fluid. These variations in the surface affect the way that the ice crystals form and branch out, forming the beautiful patterns” https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/what-causes-these-beautiful-frost-patterns

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Show threadTomMar 15, 2024
@janneuu Frost patterns are always very cool. No pun intended lol
Show threadLisaMar 15, 2024
@janneuu Water under duress is quite beautiful. Fascinating.
Show threadgiarminioMar 15, 2024
@janneuu It's so beautiful! And it made me think of these photos i took some years ago, not as beautiful but pretty, for me, depicting the brown imprints that were left by some leaves on a light gray concrete surface after a heavy rain, a sudden frost, and a slow melting of the resulting ice :)
Show threadJanne UuMar 15, 2024
@giarminio Very beautiful! Like cherub wings on the Shroud of Turin :)
Show threadgiarminioMar 15, 2024
@janneuu I don't know them, can you share or point me to a photo of them?
Show threadJanne UuMar 15, 2024
@giarminio I’m sorry to disappoint you, but there aren’t, in fact, any cherubim on the Shroud of Turin. Just something your images conjured in my head :)
Show threadgiarminioMar 15, 2024
@janneuu Ok, got it, you mean Jesus' shroud, and that the seventy apostles where actually trees :))
Show threadLydia SchochMar 15, 2024
@janneuu @bomkatt That’s gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. #Frostodon would like it, too!
Show threadWalter TrossMar 15, 2024
@janneuu And you had _not_ parked the car with the rear against a bush lately? As I presume you'll answer you hadn't, I'll say: it's jaw-dropping!
Show threadJanne UuMar 15, 2024
@waltertross Neither had the rear been anywhere near my wife who happens to be a surface designer specialized in plant and animal patterns (https://vilmapellinen.com/). The images dropped her jaw, too!
Vilma Pellinen | Surface designer and illustrator

Show threadIgnas KielaMar 15, 2024
@janneuu oh, that happens sometimes here in winter. Inside of the car was likely colder than the outside, and air movement helps the patterns develop. It usually develops when the glass is colder than air and as such water condenses on it and then freezes.

Here's some cool examples of how it can look like.
Show threadJanne UuMar 15, 2024
@ignaloidas Thanks for the explanation and the cool examples!
Show threadMandelbroMar 17, 2024
@ignaloidas @janneuu I see Mandelbrot set in all patterns shown in this thread
Show threadCubeRootOfTrueMar 18, 2024
@ignaloidas @janneuu ❤️
Show threadtobychevMar 16, 2024
@janneuu
I know @Ruth_Mottram had a hashtag for exactly this, but I can't remember what it was now, hope she sees it!
Show threadRuth MottramMar 16, 2024
@tobychev @janneuu that is indeed a superb example of #icetodon (+ #frostodon)!
Show threadAntonin RousselMar 16, 2024
@janneuu are the dust, or some chemicals in the air to be credited ?
Show threadJanne UuMar 16, 2024
@7tonin The air is very clean where we live (Finnish Lapland) and I haven’t washed that window with chemicals, either, so it must be the dust.
Show threadAntonin RousselMar 16, 2024
@janneuu maybe some back and forward in temperature around ice melting point? While going to work, maybe have you warmed it up a gentle bit, before it got back in freezing process, but not from (liquid) scratch.
Watching a pond getting frozen is also mesmerising.
Thank you for sharing it.
Show threadAntonin RousselMar 17, 2024

@janneuu The master piece you brought, reminds me this window frost taken in Edirne, Turkey, december 2001. After some very snowy days, temperatures may have been between - 10 °C and 0 °C (according to Infoclimat )

Undoubtedly, mother nature is making progress!

#art #givre #motifs #ornement #artSpontané #artGivré #motifsGivré #foliage #frostArt #incidentalArt #naturalArt #ornament #pattern
(enhanced colors and contrast thanks darktable)

Show threadAntonin RousselJan 24, 2025
Quelques similitudes https://mastodon.social/@bernard_de_zanzibar/113878942047705469
Show threadΨ*ΨMar 16, 2024
@janneuu someone please make a shirt with that print
Show threadacmMar 16, 2024
@janneuu don't forget #FensterFreitag !! amazing patterns!!
Show threadSwellMar 16, 2024
@janneuu amazing!