1/2" x 1/2" macro photo of glass of 4 colors

Same method but more colors. The 'black' areas are actually clear colors visible when back lit. Also a ~14 pound brick.
Resulting increase in bubbles from more colors of glass therefore causing more chemical reactions -perhaps-.
Jagged shapes perhaps caused by one color 'traveling' into another color. Lateral compression ? Not sure. Don't care. Like the results.
Interesting dance nonetheless.
Both photos done with iPad.

That will knock your socks off!!

It is exciting to cut those bricks open not knowing what may have happened within miket.

Fractals

Fractal patterns would be the ultimate fishnpinball.
If you see fractal behavior please inform me of where.

Perhaps a sequence of the melting process will help understand possible fractal creation.
Thanks for introducing fractals, never was aware.
The 1st photo is the layers of colored glass that was melted and it poured thru the hole in the pot and into the brick mold.
Lol, I was bit in a haze when developing these processes but kept photo records.

There was problems with fractures due to cobalt blue and opaque teal.
These colors have been omitted from future melts. It took a few weeks for the fractures to set in.

Melted Oct.3, sawn Oct.5 2018.

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Defects caused by cobalt blue and opaque teal adversely effected the glass quality thru out the brick.

The size of the hole and even more critical is the amount of distance of the exit hole above the brick mold i.e. 'the distance poured'.

People have been melting 'hail Mary pot melts' for years using leftover glass scraps but not many have ever fixed most of the variables in this pot melt process.

So this single basic fixed size one-hole-pot-melt with equal pouring distance is used on every melt.
All dimensional variables held constant at the pot and mold.
All variations are done when stacking the glass in the pot above.
In these melts the only variable was stacking different colors of glass for each melt in a stack w/glass laid flat.

If the exit hole is close to the brick mold for a short pour there is little distortion, if exit hole is far from the brick mold them much more mixing occurs and resulting chaos.
Similar to laminar(layered) and turbulent(mixed) flow as defined in fluid dynamics. Layered flow seems to be occurring in this 'controlled' pot melt..

That is basically the process.

I had never seen the word fractals, fractal behavior seems to be describable by series equations which can be freaky complicated.
Series equations according to mathematicians describe a bunch of natural phenomena though, especially in plants.
Fractals apparently occur in plants commonly according to Youtube videos.

The concept of fractals blowing my mind as does these patterns in the glass that somehow resemble fractal behavior.
I am just trying to manipulate melted glass to make crazy patterns to tumble polish. If fractal patterns can be produced then all the better.
Patterns and colors have some kind of mind tickling effect on me. Glass serving as the perfect medium for accomplishing such.

Again apologizing for the rant, but this process and outcome is not something that can be described in 2 sentences.

Another type pot melt involving repeat patterns is having a flat pot above with many equal sized holes and pouring onto a flat surface making a constant thickness plate of glass with many repeat patterns.
Not sure if the repetition of patterns could be defined as fractals though.

Similar to this arrangement but using equal colors:

Navigating via fractal patterns in watersheds in the forests of the SE US.
If your destination is a big river it is fail proof system of navigating to it.
Simply follow small creeks to bigger breeks to yet bigger creeks till you get to the river.
A bigger version of a smaller version of similarly shaped paths as you get closer to the river. (is that worded properly ?)
Sorta like the blood delivery into the body from a large artery and successively smaller arteries down to the final capillaries.

In the case of a watershed you are removing material by erosion in a precise fractal pattern.
In the case of the glass it appears fractals are created by adding as the one colored glass ventures into other colors of glass.
Perhaps similar to dendritic formations. Awesome sauce.

I love fractals! The designs, not the math. Also like your awesome sauce style. Thanks for sharing all this.