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Fractals: Romanesco Broccoli, Showing Self-Similar Form Approximating A Natural Fractal

Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves on different scales and are created by repeating a simple process over and over. They are found throughout nature in things like trees, coastlines, and clouds. Abstract fractals like the Mandelbrot set can be generated by a computer calculating an equation repeatedly. Fractals have helped mathematicians and scientists study irregular shapes and patterns found in nature and human artifacts that do not conform to standard geometry. Examples of fractals include the Sierpinski gasket, Pascal's triangle, the Mandelbrot set, and the Sierpinski triangle.

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Fractals: Romanesco Broccoli, Showing Self-Similar Form Approximating A Natural Fractal

Fractals are patterns that repeat themselves on different scales and are created by repeating a simple process over and over. They are found throughout nature in things like trees, coastlines, and clouds. Abstract fractals like the Mandelbrot set can be generated by a computer calculating an equation repeatedly. Fractals have helped mathematicians and scientists study irregular shapes and patterns found in nature and human artifacts that do not conform to standard geometry. Examples of fractals include the Sierpinski gasket, Pascal's triangle, the Mandelbrot set, and the Sierpinski triangle.

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Fractals

A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across
different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback
loop.

Fractal patterns are extremely familiar, since nature is full


of fractals. For instance: trees, rivers, coastlines,
mountains, clouds, seashells, hurricanes, etc. Abstract
fractals – such as the Mandelbrot Set – can be generated
by a computer calculating a simple equation over and over.

It is a pattern in nature which is now a new branch of


mathematics and art. Most physical systems of nature and
many human artifacts are not regular geometric shapes of
the standard geometry derived from Euclid. Fractal
geometry offers almost unlimited ways of describing,
measuring and predicting these natural phenomena.

Romanesco broccoli, showing self-similar form


approximating a natural fractal

Fractals have greatly helped mathematicians and scientists in developing the following:

The Sierpinski Gasket

It consists of countless triangles, which is created by repeatedly cutting out


a triangle in the center of all the other triangles.

Pascal’s Triangle is a number pyramid in which every number is the sum of


the two numbers above.

The Mandelbrot Set

One of the most famous and most intriguing fractals is the Mandelbrot
Set, named after the French mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot (1924 –
2010). When rotated by 90°, it looks a bit like a person, with head, body
and two arms. It is a set of complex numbers for which the function
does not diverge when iterated from, i.e., for which the sequence, etc.,
remains bounded in absolute value.

Sierpinski Triangle

This is the fractal we can get by taking the midpoints of each side of an
equilateral triangle and connecting them. The iterations should be repeated
an infinite number of times.
References:

What are Fractals? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://fractalfoundation.org/resources/what-are-fractals/

Fractals | World of Mathematics. (n.d.). Retrieved January 25, 25, from


https://mathigon.org/world/Fractals

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