formations, formations, formations
you don't have to scream a lot to keep an age in tune...
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Milk Hill, Wiltshire, August 2001. 'Size Queen' croppies loved this formation. And before you ask, it's been coloured in PhotoShop; it didn't have that ethereal glow in the field. Or did it?
Dispel all thoughts of 'six-fold Julia Set' nonsense when you look at this; it's nothing of the sort. Aside from the 'arms' of little circles this has little in common with the Julia Set formations. Geometrically, it's a very simple variant of six-fold geometry that has been done a great many times in 'lesser' designs. Photograph by Peter Sorensen.
We decided against it, in the end. There are several reasons why.
Firstly, such databases are a weighty undertaking. To establish and maintain such a site, with substantive reports and with updates on a sometimes daily basis, is beyond us. Much as we love it, we have plenty in the way of commitments outside of crop circles.
Secondly, there are more than enough sites that provide such a service already. The most famous, of course, is The Crop Circle Connector, though we much prefer to refer people to Paul Vigay's Crop Circle Research site - Apple to CCC's Microsoft, as we sometimes like to see it : ) There are other sites, too; check the links page for details. These sites are already doing the job. We don't believe in unneccesary repetition.
There is a third reason.
Call it niggly, but we can't help but feel that 'up to the minute details
of the latest formations' pages, despite their obvious value, miss out
on something: this is the latest crop circle, it's here, and there's this
one too, location, location, location, but in the Summer heat it's easy
to mistake philately for clarity, and to convince yourself that if you can
just include this formation, and this formation, and this one too, that
qualifies as insight.
We had always intended to do selected in-depth reports of particular formations, though (indeed, we have), and maybe some day soon you'll get to see them.