A cultural research into the opposite signifiance of this adjectives
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Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Fractals

Yellow, Antonio Giorgi
A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity.
The most impressive feature of fractals is that their mathematical dimension is halfway between a line and a surface, in fact they are infinitely porous

A 3D interpretation of Sierpinski triangle