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Frost Flowers on the Windows (1899) (publicdomainreview.org)
25 points by drdee on Jan 26, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments



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.


I have never heard of this. I did not see modern answer for this phenomenon is, do we know?



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).


Lol and I thought this was a real phenomenon I have never observed or heard of.



Warning: engaging cranky old codemonkey mode.

Here's a functional website with the same PDF: https://archive.org/details/frostflowersonwi00albe/page/n1/m...

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.


> 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?


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?


It loaded eventually - Chrome blocked a couple of cross site iframe loads, even without any extensions, but after a few reloads it started working.

I am on 1gbps fiber with an M1 Max, I don’t know what the issue is.




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