The beautiful grain of the wood in the caption picture of this article reminded me of patterns I've seen discussed in chaos theory, in particular chaotic orbits. Is that picture actually of one of your creations? If so, did you have that intention? Does chaos theory play a part in your designs? At any rate, how does that particular kind of pattern affect the strength of the piece?

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