Field Of Geeks

Carve it, and they will come (via Wicked Thoughts):

CARVED out in a Wiltshire field, a 46m-wide pattern is said to represent the first 10 digits of pi, one of the most fundamental symbols in mathematics. ... But whatever its origins, the experts say it is the most complex crop circle ever seen in Britain.

The pattern appeared earlier this month near Barbury Castle, above the village of Wroughton in Wiltshire. ... [R]etired astrophysicist Mike Reed saw a photograph of it and made the mathematical link. He said the crop pattern "clearly shows" the first 10 digits of pi, which is used to calculate the area of a circle. The image is a fractal, or geometric pattern.

Fractals have been a staple of crop circle designs. The most famous, the Mandelbrot Set or the Julia Set, appeared 12 years ago in Avebury Trusloe, Wiltshire.