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