Happy Thanksgiving Break

As I was listening to NPR this morning there was an interview with one of the women from Instructables.com. A group of people made a giant fractal pecan pie....

introgiant fractal pecan pie

"for thanksgiving 2k4 we opted to construct a very large pie. based on a prototype the previous year we were aware of a fundamental limitation of large pies, namely the crust to filling ratio. for traditional circular pies of radius R, the amount of filling scales as R² while the crust only scales linearly so as the pie grows larger, the flaky crust is completely dominated by the creamy filling. our solution was to construct a pie pan in the shape of a koch snowflake (whose perimter obeys completely different scaling laws), fill it with delicious pecan pie and bake in a custom backyard oven." For the rest of the story (and dare I say, step by step instructions) click here.