New York City's Pratt Institute sculpture student Melanie Hoff wanted to find out so she connected cables carrying 15,000 volts of electricity to a large plank of wood and then documented the results. Surprisingly the areas around each contact point don’t simply catch on fire or burn in a circle, but rather traverse outward in a fractal-like pattern called a "Lichtenberg figure", similar to what happens when lightening hits an object.
The amazing patterns created were captured in a video shown below.
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