This is pretty, but it is not a fractal.
Actually, a fractal it is.
OOH I detect a semantic argument brewing.
What brewing? Check the linked article, I won. This ended before it could even start.
I’m not casting any judgment, just predicting a riposte.
Step 2: take it apart and reassemble it into two jigsaw puzzles. Trickier, but much lower manufacturing costs in the long run.
A fractal is infinitely complex, and cannot be made out of wood… or even atoms. Like most things called “fractal,” this is actually a pretty shape inspired by fractals. It would be cool if mathematics worked this way.
A fractal run over infinite number of iterations, yes. A fractal run over a limited number of iterations, no.
For all practical uses, this is a fractal. Probably even procedurally generated.
It’s like claiming that a triangle you can draw is not an ideal mathematical triangle with perfectly straight lines with zero thickness.
…is not called a fractal. It’s called a shape.
Popular usage voted. It is called a fractal.
The puzzle author said so in the video so I assume he knows what he’s doing. I think the 90-degrees is just a usual value, not a requirement; e.g. according to wikipedia the terdragon uses 120 degrees.
@shaddack I get a point!
Hah! I was inb4 prediction. Point deducted!
<big">Fractious Fractal Fracas!!!
NUH UH, I predicted your riposte at Dec 21, 8:48 AM, and it arrived at Dec 21, 10:34 AM. (According to the posting times provided by BBS).
This is getting meta.
You would have won … if it was a dragon curve. Wrong angles and segments sizes. Got any other links you want to try?
Not 100% sure as my math-fu is somewhat weak, but here are images of some dragon curves with arbitrary opening angles (e.g. 17Ď€/32 in fig.3).
https://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/prints/DragonCurves.pdf
Much better, and I’m learning quite a bit from your links. Figures 6 and 8 are closer. But there is the problem of branching. I can’t find good examples of dragons created by branching.
Did find a fun link:http://www.fractalcurves.com/HorrorVacui.html
