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[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Now, canwe have fractals built from this?

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"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 1 points 1 month ago

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

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