Crop Circles in the snow!

[Steven]

Hi,

Look at these images! :)

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http://www.planetski.eu/news/2527

In the snow! Can we call them Crop, even Circles? Ah! Ah!

Namaste, Steven

[DeDukshyn]

That looks like a lot of work for some guy in snowshoes ... I'd like to hear his story ...

[Steven]

That looks like a lot of work for some guy in snowshoes ... I'd like to hear his story ...

We can speculate, but have you noticed the size of this piece of art? The depth of each marks? The number of marks, the complexity of the design, the precision of the lines, there is no way a bunch of guys would do that! And it passed almost incognito. Why a bunch of guys would waste money and time for something that big, that random in the French mountains, where no one sees it anyway? It takes a lot of energy just to get up there!

It looks as real and as complex as the other crop circles. Indeed, crop circles are seen on just about any surface where they can shape an image into. Some beautiful art are man-made, but some are definitely not.

And from the comment posted, it seems they come and go. So, we aren't talking about one formation, but several phenomenon of this kind appearing randomly in these mountains. I live in the snow several months a year and I used to do things like this in the wheat field just behind my house. To create something that big, that deep and precise, and in slopes, without even an imperfection, all marks are the same! Ahah! It would have taken help from above!

Namaste, Steven

[Billy]

Nice artwork from the snow walker guy

[Sidney]

I'm not buying thw snowshoe story either.

[DeDukshyn]

That looks like a lot of work for some guy in snowshoes ... I'd like to hear his story ...

We can specualte, but have you noticed the size of this piece of art? The depth of each marks? The number of marks, the complexity of the design, the precision of the lines, there is no way a bunch of guys would do that! And it passed almost incognito. Why a bunch of guys would waste money and time for something that big, that random in the French mountains, where no one sees it anyway? It takes a lot of energy just to get up there!

It looks as real and as complex as the other crop circles. Indeed, crop circles are seen on just about any surface where they can shape and image into. Some beautiful art are man-made, but some are definitely not.

And from the comment posted, it seems they come and go. So, we aren't talking about one formation, but several phenomenon of this kind appearing randomly in these mountains. I live in the snow several months a year and I used to do things like this in the wheat field just behind my house. To create something that big, that deep and precise, and in slopes, without even an imperfection, all marks are the same! Ahah! It would have taken help from above!

Namaste, Steven

That's why I'd like to hear his story ;-) Seems like a lot of work for one guy in the snowshoes as the story suggests. But also at the same time that pattern is known in fractal worlds as a Koch's Snowflake. It rather fits as though someone chose it to display in the snow ... but who knows- I've seen some pretty fancy shapes from ice crystals and frost.


From Wikipedia ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake
Construction

The Koch snowflake can be constructed by starting with an equilateral triangle, then recursively altering each line segment as follows:
1.divide the line segment into three segments of equal length.
2.draw an equilateral triangle that has the middle segment from step 1 as its base and points outward.
3.remove the line segment that is the base of the triangle from step 2.

After one iteration of this process, the result is a shape similar to the Star of David.

The Koch snowflake is the limit approached as the above steps are followed over and over again. The Koch curve originally described by Koch is constructed with only one of the three sides of the original triangle. In other words, three Koch curves make a Koch snowflake

[Kumonitori]

Truly amazing. At first, I thought it may have been man made (manually on foot taking many hours), but looking at the link photos, it sees to be impossible to get that sort of precision of each "snow shoe print" in exacting straight line over a vast area. This almost fractal like pattern - why all trouble (to make a point or make an idea evident) on SNOW ? It would only take a gust of wind to blow over the work or drop in temperature of a few degrees.

On closer inspection -- or, was it man-made (?):rolleyes:

Simon Beck
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annenolan/4337424997/
http://www.lesarcsnet.com/whats_new_article.php?id_whats_new=6709
http://webzineparadiski.compagniedesalpes.fr/2010/04/landart-in-paradise

[Tony]

That was mind blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Midnight Rambler]

Fractal beauty!

It looks real to me (maybe because I wouldn't want to do the job in the cold and in the deep packs of snow :) )

[phillipbbg]

Underground energy reflection on the under surface... that becomes visible in certain conditions?...... just a thought. Think from inner earth rather than from above, possible solution.

Remember if things get a bit hot on our little planet the other terrestrial inhabitants will have to rise to the surface ... mmmm interesting times ahead

[Lancelot]

Thanks for this steven. What an amazing piece of beauty these formations are. The patterns and symmetry are very similar to some crop circles and the sheer size of them is immense compared to the ski run and (the little skiers are just visible!)

[Bryn ap Gwilym]

Beautiful who ever is behind it.

[christian]

Nice artwork from the snow walker guy

It's the wind, that sometimes comes in patterns, snow walker, who would believe that :eyebrows:

This is cool as *%'#

[Coaxial]

very cool, real or not!

[taurad]

will this filter work with Adobe CS5?

i would kill to have it...

got a lot of wintry pics

;)




p.s. don't shoot me, "Charles" said crop/snow circling it's for hobbyists with GPS

cheers

[Steven]

..p.s. don't shoot me, "Charles" said crop/snow circling it's for hobbyists with GPS

cheers

Ah! Ah! Yes, that is one more reason to take all his fantasy world and drop it in the forgotten realm!

Namaste, Steven

[ponda]

After close inspection of the images i have come to the conclusion that the snow circles were made by 'aliens' in snow shoes

[00101]

ah Yeti's at it again I see!

[MorningSong]

Does anyone else (but me) see in the snow drifts around the design what looks like the contour of a human nose on the right and an eye in the top left?

Neat!