My first answer would've been 'no, it's fractal' but the structure of rust is actually based on the granularity of the steel. A complicating factor is that we're looking at a drawn wire, with a tendency to form a coaxially-layered network of cracks which will be expressed as the pattern of rust flakes when corrosion sets in.
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Date: 2007-03-31 06:46 pm (UTC)