• mEEGal@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “fractal” just means “broken-looking” (as in “fracture”). see Benoît Mandelbrot’s original book on this

    I assume you mean “nice looking self-replicating pattern”, which you can easily obtain by replacing each square by the whole picture over and over again

    • psud@aussie.zone
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      1 day ago

      Fractal might have meant that when Mandelbrot coined the name, but that is not what it means now.