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Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Fractal: Beautiful images created mathematically



Fractal -- a word coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 to describe shapes that are "self-similar" -- that is, shapes that look the same at different magnifications. To create a fractal, you start with a simple shape and duplicate it successively according to a set of fixed rules. Oddly enough, such a simple formula for creating shapes can produce very complex structures, some of which have a striking resemblance to objects that appear in the real world

Fractal is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction.

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