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The Dragoncurve and Paperfolding   dragoncurve.jpg
« on: Dec 10th, 2003, 10:35pm »
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Check out the surprisingly simple rules which created the image shown below, known as the DragonCurve or "Jurassic Park Fractal" (in the novel Jurassic Park, each chapter is headed with a deeper iteration of this curve). A paperfolding interpretation of the process is also given.
 
http://www.math.okstate.edu/mathdept/dynamics/lecnotes/node17.html

 
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