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[zustifer]

This is sort of weird: I was just eating some corn chips with flaxseeds in them, and I noticed after a while of eating them in front of my monitor that the seeds generally seemed to align their long axes in the same direction. See? Isn't that odd? I can't think how the seeds could be deployed in a way that would keep them directionally uniform, or how cornmeal could have a property that would hold them there.
Anyone know?

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[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

To what precision does the alignment occur?

[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Hm, reasonable precision. Seems like the norm is about +5 degrees rotation yaw (if you think of the flaxseed as a little boat with the pointy tip forward). The chips I took pictures of weren't chosen for their compliance; they were just the largest ones left in the bag.
I did see some rotated around 180 degrees, so that the seed was facing exactly backward. I guess this suggests something about the cornmeal glop travelling in one direction, or something like that.
I saw I think three seeds overall that were oriented perpendicular to the others. However, I didn't exactly sort through the whole bag. I kind of ate it.