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In geometry, a fractal canopy, a type of fractal tree, is one of the easiest-to-create types of fractals. Each canopy is created by splitting a line segment into two smaller segments at the end ( symmetric binary tree ), and then splitting the two smaller segments as well, and so on, infinitely.
14 steps of the Fractal Canopy tree, animated. The H tree is an example of a fractal canopy , in which the angle between neighboring line segments is always 180 degrees. In its property of coming arbitrarily close to every point of its bounding rectangle, it also resembles a space-filling curve , although it is not itself a curve.
The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island [1] [2]) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry" [3] by the Swedish mathematician Helge von Koch.
A Mosely snowflake is a cube-based fractal with corners recursively removed. [18] A tetrix is a tetrahedron-based fractal made from four smaller copies, arranged in a tetrahedron. [19] A Sierpinski–Menger snowflake is a cube-based fractal in which eight corner cubes and one central cube are kept each time at the lower and lower recursion steps.
The usage of the word "gasket" to refer to the Sierpiński triangle refers to gaskets such as are found in motors, and which sometimes feature a series of holes of decreasing size, similar to the fractal; this usage was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot, who thought the fractal looked similar to "the part that prevents leaks in motors". [23]
Still image of a movie of increasing magnification on 0.001643721971153 − 0.822467633298876i Still image of an animation of increasing magnification. There are many programs and algorithms used to plot the Mandelbrot set and other fractals, some of which are described in fractal-generating software.
A self-affine fractal with Hausdorff dimension = 1.8272 In mathematics , self-affinity is a feature of a fractal whose pieces are scaled by different amounts in the x and y directions. This means that to appreciate the self-similarity of these fractal objects, they have to be rescaled using an anisotropic affine transformation .
A fourth-stage Gosper curve The line from the red to the green point shows a single step of the Gosper curve construction. The Gosper curve, named after Bill Gosper, also known as the Peano-Gosper Curve [1] and the flowsnake (a spoonerism of snowflake), is a space-filling curve whose limit set is rep-7.