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PowerPoint of fractal images
Fractals are shapes that can be split into many parts, and each part will look approximately like the whole thing.
Some fractals can be made by hand. For example the Koch Curve is an example of a simple fractal that can be drawn by hand, (at least up to 3 iterations)
This animation was created using a Java applet http://www.arcytech.org/java/fractals/koch.shtml
As well as drawing fractals you can grow them!
Walker, J. (2005). Fractal food: Self-similarity on the supermarket shelf. http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/ Retrieved May 30, 2011.
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Walker, J. (1998). Switzerland from Space. Retrieved from http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/suisse_espace/ May 30, 2011.
György Kepes, Lichtenberg Figure: A. R. von Hippel, 1951, photographic enlargement on fiberboard panel. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University
A photographic panel created by the artist, designer, and visual theorist György Kepes (1906 –2001) depicts a fractal-like burst of electricity exploding across the picture plane. The fantastical image is otherworldly, even supernatural. Kepes discovered the pattern— called a Lichtenberg figure after the eighteenth-century scientist who first created such images— in the laboratory of physicist Arthur R. von Hippel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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http://www.seanet.com/~garyteachout/java/tree3.html
The most famous fractal is the Mandelbrot set we will be creating our own Mandelbrot fractals in the lab.
The mandelbrot set is way to complex to draw by hand. The only way to create an mandelbrot set is to use a computer program. The program that we will be using is called Ultra Fractal.
You can download version 2.04 and install it at home if you wish. I have also created a set of notes that explain how to install and use Ultra Fractal 2.04.
APA citation:
Russell, R. (2023, February 06, 10:05 am). Fractals Lesson Plan
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