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The Breaking Wave

The vortex of a spinning wave can be seen in the foreground as it crashes into the stationary boulders of the jetty. It seems to mimic in the form of a scale model the action of wind sheer in the troposphere.  Perhaps this is a similarity enabling us to visualize tornadic phenomena.  When a density of troposphere dry line weather systems reaches one seventh the size of it's swells from surface to top, a vortex of horizontal sheer develops.  At the beach, because of the water's viscosity, it remains horizontal, but in atmospheric densities, the sheer intermixes with less dense atmosphere, causing breaks in the sheer, leading the vertical formations and hence the phenomenon of tornadic activity.
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Notice the uneven breaking or cresting of the wave in the background.  This suggests an uneven surface on the bottom under the water.  The one-to-seven ratio happens prematurely in the wave above, causing an uneven cresting.

The movement of the swell makes the water seem to initiate a spin as it stands up in a sloped wall.  Aesthetics, vastly underrated, help us to visualize an otherwise inunderstandable world.  The undiscovered scientific discipline of applied aesthetics.  Aesthetics, implying more than one.

The dark green streaks in the midground add substance to the design element of the picture afforded by nature. The speckled characteristic of the water in the horizon adds a texture that contrasts with the starkly smooth and regular appearance of the sky.

Click here to see the article "The Vorticees of Tornadic Activity" in the weblog work-in-progress section number one.

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The Motion of the Crashing Waves

The motion of the crashing waves speaks a language to the eyes. In the distance, the approaching wave stands like a wall, it's tones darkening to signify a vertical form. It is the reality of the ocean, flat yet not. The fluid geometry always in flux, never still. 

The pulse of the waves with all it's regularity has an energy never harnessed by humankind, at least not in any significant or regularly usable fashion. The activity is too great. Man does best with static things. Too much potency in the all pervasive liquid, with such unpredictability of form unleashing such destructive force.

The foreground reveals the vertical motion of the aftermath of huge volumes of water hitting the rocks of the jetty. Yet the water is that which was there before, unlike a moving flood whose volumes of water rush swiftly by. Here the water flows by the dictates of geometry. Of an applied or realistic geometry, far removed from the axioms and theorems of the classroom. Here it's geometric dictates are always necessarily unique. One moment it's a wall of water, the next a solid arc curling against itself and leaning it's volumes into the rocks.

Click here to see the article "Wave Goodbye to the Nice Mankind", about man's effort to harness the energy of the waves, in the cosmos section.

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