1st Semester Fractal Project

Project Description and Rubric:

See Google Classroom

Interactive Fractals:

http://andrew-hoyer.com/experiments/fractals/

Readings:

Use the following websites to start answer your questions and inform yourself about fractals.

What is a fractal?

What is self-similarity?

http://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/fractals.html

How is the dimension of a fractal different from lines, rectangles, etc.?

What is iteration?

http://www.inminds.com/fractal.html

Where are fractals found in nature?

What are fractals used for?

Benoit Mandelbrot

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/mandelbrot-fractal.html

This picture of the Sierpinski triangle is from the Church Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy from the 12th or 13th century.

.Wild Cabbage: a natural fractal

Videos:

Watch each of the videos for more information on fractals:

Nova Video (we will watch this one in class)